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Asmund practices black metal from Kaluga since 2019. Their Old Norse name meaning 'divine protection' brings pagan heritage to black metal from this historic city southwest of Moscow.
Asnahsarg is a black metal project from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2025, representing one of the newest black metal acts in the Rhineland. The project channels the genre's characteristic darkness and aggression from one of Germany's largest cities.
Asofy has crafted black and doom metal from Milan since 2001, a quarter-century of activity that makes them one of Lombardy's most enduring dual-genre projects. Their long tenure has produced a body of work that bridges these two extreme styles with practiced fluency.
Allen, Texas death metal project from the DFW suburbs, contributing precise, technical brutality to North Texas's ever-expanding extreme metal community.
Harrogate's Asomvel are unrepentant Motorhead worshippers who blast out high-octane speed metal with punk attitude and a take-no-prisoners stage presence. Founded in 1993, the band overcame tragedy when frontman Jay-Jay Winter was killed in a 2010 road accident, continuing in his honour with albums like 'Kamikaze' and 'World Shaker' that earned them a devoted global following.
Tampa death metal band carrying the torch of Florida's legendary death metal legacy, emerging from the same city that birthed Morbid Angel, Obituary, and Deicide.
Aspaarn is a one-man raw black metal project from Lausanne, Switzerland, whose music shifts between ice-cold aggression and melancholic atmospheric passages rooted in nature and primordial history. The project's extensive catalog — including "Oblations in Atrocity," "When Iron Meant Survival," "Ancestral Genocides," and the EPs "Cataclysmic Eminences" and "Mørk Virvelvind" — stands among the more prolific efforts in the Swiss raw black metal underground.
A heavy metal band from Kostelec nad Orlicí in the Hradec Králové Region, Aspect operate within the Czech traditional metal underground. Their Bandcamp URL resolves to an unrelated electronic/ambient project, and specific release information for this Czech act was not verifiable through available sources.
Aspen has crafted stoner and doom metal from Barcelos in the Minho region since 1995, making them one of Portugal's oldest stoner doom acts. Three decades from this northern Portuguese town famous for its folk pottery rooster have produced a substantial body of hazy, riff-heavy work.
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