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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Death metal and grindcore project of undisclosed origin whose 2023 releases — including Breathplay In D Standard — make their thematic fixation aggressively literal. Transgressive grind that pushes every boundary of taste.
Aspid has navigated from thrash and groove metal into hard rock and heavy metal territory from Girona in Catalonia since 1991. Over three decades of activity from this medieval walled city, they have proven themselves one of the most enduring bands in the Catalan heavy music scene.
Aspidis is a dissonant black/death metal band from Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, founded in 2012. Their 2017 EP Reborn From Darkness and their more recent album Intruding Voices (2025) reflect a dense, abrasive approach to the genre with roots in the dissonant death metal current popularized by acts like Ulcerate and Gorguts.
Aspidium is a black and death metal band from Abtsgmund and Aalen in Germany, established in 2017 as a solo project of Kurt Jason Kelderer before expanding to include Susi Hartmann on bass and Emil Herrmann on drums. The band's two albums, Manifestum and the 2020 follow-up Harmagedon, deliver a fierce blend of black and death metal from the rural Swabian countryside.
New Bethlehem, Pennsylvania black metal project from a town whose name provides ironic biblical resonance for anti-religious music. Minimal output from rural western PA.
Aspiration channels death metal from the tiny Ostrobothnian village of Pyhäntä since 2016, one of Finland's most remote sources of extreme metal. Their ambitious name contrasts with their humble rural origins, suggesting a band reaching for something beyond their surroundings.
Aspirationis delivers symphonic and melodic death metal from the Saratov and Engels area since 2021. Their Latin name meaning 'of aspiration' drives orchestrally enhanced compositions from these twin cities on the Volga.
New York City power metal project. The aspirational name matches the genre's inherent optimism — triumphant metal reaching skyward from the city's underground.
Buffalo, New York metalcore and thrash hybrid whose 2018 debut The Undying delivers aggressive, melodically charged heaviness from Western New York's hardscrabble metal scene.
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