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Asphodelos is a death and thrash metal band from Jena in Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2010, whose releases include And Death Shall Reign, To the Grounds of Everwhite, and The Five Rivers of Erebos. The band's album titles draw heavily on Greek underworld mythology, with Asphodelos itself referencing the fields of the afterlife where ordinary souls dwell in Greek tradition.
Asphyxia Perception crafts gothic, doom, and death metal from Vologda since 2015. Their suffocation-awareness name drives a decade of multi-genre compositions from this historically rich northern Russian city.
Asphyxiate is a progressive death metal band from Flemish Brabant, Belgium, blending technical death metal structures with progressive song architecture. They released the "Electric Demonic Plague" EP and a self-titled cassette, building a sound that pushes beyond straightforward brutality into more elaborate compositional territory.
Death metal project operating with minimal public information, delivering suffocating extremity from an undisclosed location in the American underground.
Asphyxiated is a death metal band from Salvador, Bahia, formed in 2022 and representing a newer generation of extreme metal emerging from Brazil's northeastern coast. Operating as an independent act, the band adds to Salvador's growing underground metal presence.
San Diego death metal band adding to Southern California's deep pool of extreme music, delivering crushing brutality from America's Finest City.
Trenton, New Jersey death metal project with two albums spanning 2020 to 2025. Ghost and In the Shadows of Your Memory deliver atmospheric death metal that explores themes of memory and haunting from the Garden State's capital.
Queens, New York death metal act whose 2021 EP Space Adaptation Syndrome applies NASA medical terminology to extreme music. Death metal that sounds like it was recorded in zero gravity — disorienting and crushing.
Ruthless Death Metal from Sherman.
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