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Asmodina is a heavy metal band from Darmstadt, Germany, formed in 2020, delivering traditional heavy metal rooted in the genre's classic riff-driven approach. The band contributes to the Hessian heavy metal scene with their straightforward, powerful sound.
Asmodina was a melodic death/black metal band from Teresina, Piauí, a city with a small but determined extreme metal scene in Brazil's northeastern interior. The project drew on the melodic death and black metal aesthetics common to the early 2000s Brazilian underground before splitting up.
Phoenix death metal act delivering blistering extremity from the Valley of the Sun, adding to Arizona's growing reputation as a hotbed for brutal underground metal.
Asmon channels black metal from Elbląg in Warmia-Masuria since 2021. Their demonic name — a shortened form of Asmodeus — drives compositions of infernal hostility from this historic Hanseatic port city.
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.
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