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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.
Apokalyptic Sky brings black metal from Bordeaux since 2016, their apocalyptic name evoking the image of a sky torn open by divine wrath. Their approach adds another dark voice to the Gironde capital's growing extreme metal community.
Apokalyptisk Framtid is a black metal/noise/punk project from Catanduva, São Paulo state, formed in 2023. Their approach fuses the ugliness of raw black metal with punk and noise abrasion, and they have already appeared on split releases within the Brazilian underground, including the 2026 "Friends of Evil" split alongside Mortuário A.D., Mourning Souls, and Pugnax.
Apokatastase is a thrash/death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active since 2022. Taking their name from the theological concept of universal restoration, the band operates within the city's well-established extreme metal underground, delivering aggressive, riff-driven material at the intersection of thrash and death metal.
Phoenix, Arizona black metal project named after the early Christian concept of universal restoration. Their 2024 debut The Withering of the Disconsolate channels theological despair through atmospheric black metal, the desert heat providing an unexpected backdrop for such frigid sounds.
Apokathilosis has practiced black metal from Dublin since 2015, their name referencing the ancient Greek concept of celestial deification. Their theological grounding informs a black metal approach that seeks transcendence through extremity.
Apokrifos is a death metal and grindcore band from Tula, Hidalgo, Mexico, active since 1997. The band released their debut album Fatal Demencia that same year, a thirteen-track assault of Spanish-language death metal touching on themes of violence, societal critique, and gore. They have maintained an active underground presence in Mexico's extreme metal scene for nearly three decades.
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