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Asane channels black metal from England since 2025, representing the very latest generation of British black metal. Their brief, enigmatic name lets the raw intensity of their music speak for itself.
Asarhaddon is an atmospheric black metal band from the Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia border region of Germany, active since 2014, featuring Christian Koss on guitars and bass and Christian Kircher on drums among a rotating cast of collaborators. Their prolific discography includes Reysa, Haginthorn, Thurofreminga, Besenken, and Era, with their Wacken Foundation-sponsored 2025 single Witherloup incorporating hurdy gurdy and piano into a nearly ten-minute atmospheric black metal composition.
Asarhadon creates death metal from Doruchów, a small village in Greater Poland, since 2015. Named after the Assyrian king who conquered Egypt, they bring ancient Near Eastern imperial power to death metal from rural Poland.
Asarmoth creates death metal from Vicenza since 2016, operating from the Veneto city of Palladian villas. Their demonic name drives music that strips away their hometown's architectural elegance to reveal the brutality beneath.
Asaru is a black metal band from Darmstadt, Germany, formed in 2013, named after the Sumerian deity associated with justice and wisdom. The band brings extreme metal to the Hessian underground with their take on black metal's dark traditions.
Springfield, Massachusetts stoner/thrash hybrid with two EPs since 2022. The mystically numbered 777 and the more visceral Sinking pair esoteric symbolism with New England heaviness.
Asathor are a Viennese Viking metal band operating under the asathorlux imprint, whose album Vegvísir — named after the Icelandic runic compass — signals their engagement with Norse mythology and Old Norse spiritual symbolism. Their music pairs melodic, folklorically influenced arrangements with the anthemic, mid-paced energy of Scandinavian Viking metal.
Asator is a post-black and doom metal band from Bremen, Germany, whose foundation dates to 2005 and whose sound evolved through name changes and lineup shifts before reaching its current form. Their German-language catalog, including Fragmente, Gezeiten, and Traktat Metamorphose Manifest, blends black metal, Swedish death metal, shoegaze, and post-rock into an expansive, genre-crossing sound.
Milwaukee doom metal project with three releases since 2016. Deserve to Die and Deserted Temples channel Beer City's blue-collar melancholy into crushing, deliberate heaviness that matches the Rust Belt's weight.
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