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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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South Wales' Avagddu draw from Welsh mythology to create a distinctive blend of black, doom, folk, and funeral doom metal, named after the ugliest man in Welsh legend. Since 2008, their music has channelled the ancient darkness of Celtic folklore through sprawling, atmospheric compositions.
Avant Soliloque merges black and doom metal from Bucharest since 2013. Their French-inflected name, meaning 'before the soliloquy,' suggests compositions that build toward profound individual expression from the Romanian capital.
Avarsír merges atmospheric black metal with doom metal's crushing pace, a Hungarian project formed in 2023 whose name translates roughly to 'Avar Grave,' referencing the medieval Avar people who once inhabited the Carpathian Basin. Their music excavates the historical darkness buried beneath the Hungarian plain.
Aveth has evolved from black metal into a black, folk, and doom metal hybrid from Kungur in the Perm Region since 2018. From this small Ural town famous for its ice caves, they channel subterranean darkness through multiple genre lenses.
Avgrunden creates drone, doom metal, and ambient from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2011. Their definite-form Swedish name — 'the abyss' — drives fifteen years of glacial, bottomless heaviness.
Aviendha creates doom and stoner metal from Bergen since 2020, named after a character from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Their fantasy-literary identity drives heavy, riff-worshipping compositions from the fjord city.
Avsky explores progressive doom metal from Jakobsberg in the Stockholm metropolitan area since 2006. Their Swedish name meaning 'disgust' drives two decades of patient, elaborately constructed compositions from the western suburbs.
Awake in Sleep delivers doom and sludge metal from Nantes since 2011, their paradoxical name capturing the liminal state between consciousness and oblivion that their heavy music evokes. Over a decade of crushing compositions reflect deep roots in the Loire-Atlantique underground.
Glasgow's Aye-aye craft slow-burning doom and stoner metal infused with Scottish character, building songs around massive fuzz-laden riffs and hypnotic grooves. Since 2014, they've been a fixture in Scotland's vibrant stoner-doom underground.
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