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Agoraphobic Nosebleed is a legendary grindcore and experimental extreme music project from Springfield, Massachusetts. Founded by Scott Hull of Pig Destroyer, the project is known for their machine-gun cybergrind assaults as well as unexpected stylistic detours into sludge and doom metal, making them one of the most unpredictable and influential acts in American grindcore.
Agoria blends black and doom metal from Riihimäki since 2011, creating compositions that shift between blast-beat fury and crushing slowness. Their dual-genre approach spans the extremes of tempo within Finnish underground metal.
Agowilt is a drone/doom metal and crust project from Long Beach, California. Their 2012 single "Clocks Made Of Their Own Bones" hints at a band operating at the crushing intersection of drone doom and crust punk.
Ailment channels funeral doom metal from Lublin since 2017. Their sickness-themed name drives glacially paced compositions of profound suffering from eastern Poland's university city.
Aisumasen channels sludge and doom metal from Gothenburg since 2017. Their Japanese-derived name — meaning 'I'm sorry' — adds an unexpected East Asian politeness to the crushing weight of their Swedish sludge doom.
Aittala is a heavy, stoner, and doom metal band from the Raleigh/Apex area of North Carolina. With six releases stretching back to 1993, the band is a veteran act with over three decades of heavy, groove-laden doom under their belt.
Aivvass is a German occult folk doom metal band whose releases Occult Rites I and Occult Rites II channel pagan and esoteric themes through crushing doom riffs layered with folk instrumentation. The band's thematic focus on ritualistic subject matter gives their work a cohesive, atmospheric identity rooted in the occult doom tradition.
Self-styled "Blackened Crowleyan Doom" — psychedelic blues and crushing doom filtered through the occult lens of Aleister Crowley.
Aiwaz is a gothic doom metal band from Dortmund, Germany, formed in 2017, drawing on dark, melancholic heaviness with gothic overtones. The band explores themes of shadow and mysticism within the framework of slow, crushing doom metal.
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