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Ashes of Life creates gothic and doom metal from Lisbon since 2020. Their existential name — what remains after life burns away — drives compositions of darkly romantic heaviness from the Portuguese capital.
Ashes of Nothing crafts death, doom, and post-metal from an undisclosed Slovenian location since 2009. Their nihilistic-remnant name drives nearly two decades of compositions that explore what remains after everything is consumed.
Pittsburgh NWOTHM band carrying the Steel City's heavy metal banner with classic riffs and anthemic energy, adding to Western Pennsylvania's deep metal heritage.
Ashtar are a Basel duo formed in 2012 by Marko and Nadine Lehtinen, both veterans of the Swiss doom acts Phased and shEver, crafting a haunting hybrid of black metal, sludge, and doom built on down-tuned riffs, heavy bass, and layered, dissonant melodies. Signed to Northern Fog Records, they have released four albums — "Ilmasaari" (2015), "Kaikuja" (2020), "Wandering Through Time" (2023), and "The Return of the Frozen Souls" (2024).
Asidie creates melodic doom and gothic metal from Parma since 2018. Their contemplative approach pairs the sorrowful weight of doom with gothic metal's dark elegance, crafted in the shadow of Parma's Romanesque cathedral.
Asilo was a Buenos Aires sludge, drone, and doom metal collective that built a catalog of slow, crushing releases across the 2010s, including the split with Neh Czneg (2013), Comunión (2014), and Desintegración (2019). Their approach leaned toward extended, corrosive compositions that placed them firmly within the heavier end of Argentina's underground doom scene.
Asken av Verden creates depressive black metal, dark ambient, and industrial from Catalonia since 2016. Their Norwegian-language name meaning 'ashes of the world' brings Scandinavian bleakness to the Mediterranean context of northeastern Spain.
Asketic are a Swiss death/doom duo — guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Morten C. Hack alongside vocalist Remo McTegam — whose releases on Bandcamp include the concept albums "Spinalonga" (2021), named for the Cretan leper colony, "Toxicity" (2022), "Gruinard" (2024), and "Ruination" (2024). Their sound is recorded at Hedgehog Studio, mixing sepulchral vocals with slow, textured riffing under the band's self-described banner of "death doom darkness."
Athens' Asmodie merge death and doom metal into infernal compositions named after the demon Asmodeus, exploring themes of temptation and damnation. Since 2015, they've crafted a sound that moves between crushing doom weight and death metal ferocity.
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