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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Aspro Askari creates progressive black and death metal from Cologne since 2016. Their name, combining Greek and Swahili words, brings a multicultural edge to their progressive approach to extreme metal from the Rhine metropolis.
Brooklyn grindcore project whose 2025 album FUNKO POP MUSIC takes aim at consumer culture through grinding extremity. The deliberately provocative title and multilingual approach mark them as part of NYC's newest wave of confrontational heavy music.
Asrai is a gothic rock and metal band from Schiedam, Netherlands, founded in 1985 in the Rotterdam underground scene by twin sisters Karin and Margriet, adopting the Asrai name in 1988. Their output sits at the intersection of gothic metal and gothic rock, and the band gained wider European exposure with their 1997 debut album As Voices Speak, which received a German release through Poison Ivy Records. Later releases including Touch in the Dark and Pearls in Dirt (2007) refined their atmospheric sound, and a 30th anniversary collection, Hourglass, gathered key material and remixes.
College Station, Texas crossover thrash act with two releases since 2010. Operating from Texas A&M's college town with a name that refuses to be taken seriously, they channel DIY punk energy through heavy, unpretentious crossover.
Ass Burners has been fusing black metal, death metal, and grindcore from Lille since 2003, their deliberately provocative name signaling a project that values transgression alongside extremity. Over two decades of genre-crossing mayhem from northern France reflect enduring commitment.
Ass Flavour is a death/grindcore band from Vila Velha, Espírito Santo, active since 2005 and known for gore-drenched splatter-death metal in the tradition of Carcass, Pungent Stench, and Cannibal Corpse. Their 2015 album Dirty Procedure showcases ultra-fast drumming and multi-timbred growling vocals alongside pathological themes, and members have since branched into related projects including the death/black metal act Impugnant.
Punishing Melodic Thrash / Death Metal from Austin.
Assacrentis channels melodic black metal from Nice since 2004, contributing to the Côte d'Azur's surprisingly active extreme metal community for two decades. Their sacral-sounding name adds ceremonial weight to their Mediterranean black metal.
Sandusky, Ohio power metal band bringing epic, anthemic metal to the shores of Lake Erie, delivering soaring melodies from Northern Ohio's blue-collar heartland.
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