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Apofis is a black metal band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in 2021. Drawing on themes of darkness, rituals, mysticism, and misanthropy, the band has self-released a string of EPs including Rituals in the Dark, Reborn in the Black Sky, and The Mountain Mist, as well as contributing to a 2023 split release. They remain an active independent act in Ecuador's underground black metal scene.
Apofolis is an atmospheric black metal project from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2014, building immersive, layered soundscapes within the black metal framework. The project contributes to the growing atmospheric and post-black metal movement in western Germany.
Apogee channels black metal from the French underground since 2023, their astronomical name referencing the point farthest from Earth in an orbit. Their celestial orientation suits compositions that reach for the cosmic extremes of the genre.
Apogeion has been crafting black metal from the Finnish underground since 2007, their astronomical name referencing the point farthest from Earth in an orbit. Nearly two decades of activity mark them as one of the more enduring anonymous Finnish black metal projects.
Apogem delivers death metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2021. Their gemological name — the highest point, as in a gem's crown — drives compositions that aspire to peak intensity.
Athens' Apognosis ('despair' in Greek) channel their namesake emotion through bleak, unforgiving black metal. Since 2016, the project has explored the deepest wells of hopelessness through raw, cathartic compositions.
Apoka is a black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2020 within the city's dense underground extreme metal community. Their sound draws on the rawer, uncompromising traditions of the genre that have long flourished in southeastern Brazil.
Apokalupsis channels black metal from the French underground since 2018, their Greek-derived name for "revelation" or "apocalypse" setting the eschatological tone for their compositions. The project explores the end of days through extreme metal's darkest lens.
Apokalyptic Raids is a black/death/thrash metal band from Rio de Janeiro, originally formed in 1998 as Apocalyptic Raids — a name drawn directly from a Hellhammer EP — before adopting the current spelling in 2001. Driven by guitarist and vocalist Leon "Necromaniac" Manssur, they have released a string of albums and splits since their debut "Only Death Is Real" (2001), channeling the proto-black metal ferocity of Hellhammer, Bathory, and Vulcano while collaborating with acts like Whipstriker and Atomic Roar.
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