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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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As4del crafts death and doom metal from Vinnytsia since 2007. Nearly two decades from this central Ukrainian city on the Southern Bug River, their alphanumeric name has guided a body of dual-genre heaviness.
DeKalb, Illinois groove metal project with two EPs since 2011. Sweeter Things and Withdrawal deliver heavy, rhythmically driven music from the NIU college town, the titles hinting at addiction narratives beneath the riffs.
Asacris channels melodic black metal from Saransk, the capital of Mordovia, since 2020. From this Finno-Ugric republic city in the Volga region, they bring melodic refinement to black metal's harsh framework.
San Francisco thrash metal act whose 2009 debut GRILL 'EM ALL channels Bay Area thrash traditions through a food-truck aesthetic before delivering their self-titled full-length in 2024. Fifteen years between releases shows a band that plays by nobody else's timeline.
Asael is a symphonic black and thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2020, combining orchestral grandeur with the speed and aggression of black and thrash metal. The band merges symphonic ambition with extreme metal intensity from Germany's capital city.
Asafated creates death and doom metal from Istanbul since 2022. Their compound name drives compositions of fated heaviness from the city where continents meet.
Sacramento black metal act named controversially, channeling provocative intent into raw, unfiltered extremity from California's capital city.
Asakku is a black metal band from Marl in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, named after the demonic beings of ancient Mesopotamian mythology. The band channels the malevolent spirit of their Akkadian namesake through the black metal framework.
Thessaloniki's Asakta ('unattached' in Sanskrit) craft introspective black metal exploring themes of detachment and spiritual liberation. Since 2021, the project has brought an Eastern philosophical dimension to the Greek black metal landscape.
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