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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Yonkers black metal band from New York City's northern border, channeling the decay and transformation of the fall season into atmospheric extremity.
Autumn, Leaves, Scars channels post-black metal from Cluj-Napoca since 2014. Their poetically structured name — a sequence of seasonal images — drives atmospheric compositions from Transylvania's unofficial capital.
Autumnal was one of Madrid's most distinctive doom metal acts, incorporating cello into atmospheric gothic-doom compositions during an active run from 1998 to 2022. Their album "Grey Universe" and shared stages with acts like Draconian at Madrid is the Dark Fest cemented their status as one of Spain's premier doom bands.
Autumnal Cold crafts melodic death metal from Sokołów Podlaski in eastern Masovia since 2018. Their seasonal name captures the biting chill of Polish autumn, which their melodic compositions render in musical frost.
Autumnal Discord crafts atmospheric death and doom metal from Moscow since 2021. Their seasonal-conflict name drives compositions that explore the tension between beauty and decay in autumn's annual drama.
Autumnal Sorrow creates black metal and ambient from Carovigno in the Brindisi province of Puglia since 2017. Their seasonal-grief name drives atmospheric compositions from the olive-groved landscape of the Adriatic coast.
Minneapolis black metal project whose 2024 single The Streets Are Callin' Me brings an unusual urban directness to a genre typically associated with forests and mountains. Street-level black metal from the Twin Cities.
Autumnblaze is a German melancholic metal band from Illingen, formed in 1996 by Markus B. on vocals, guitars, bass, and songwriting alongside Arisjel on drums. The band has transformed their style with each new record across albums like DammerElbenTragodie, Welkin Shores Burning, Every Sun Is Fragile, Perdition Diaries, and the upcoming ninth album Glut, always bearing deep melancholy as a unifying thread through their evolving sound.
Autumnia has delivered melodic doom and death metal from Kryvyi Rih since 2009. Over fifteen years from this major Ukrainian industrial city known as one of the world's longest cities, they have built a substantial body of melancholic compositions.
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