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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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Ava Inferi crafted gothic and doom metal from Almada since 2006, featuring vocalist Carmen Simões and members connected to Moonspell. Their Latin name meaning 'hail the infernal ones' guided compositions of dark beauty that helped define Portugal's gothic metal identity.
Gassaway, West Virginia black metal project emerging from deep Appalachia, channeling the Mountain State's isolation and rugged terrain into raw atmospheric extremity.
South Wales' Avagddu draw from Welsh mythology to create a distinctive blend of black, doom, folk, and funeral doom metal, named after the ugliest man in Welsh legend. Since 2008, their music has channelled the ancient darkness of Celtic folklore through sprawling, atmospheric compositions.
Avaken is a power/thrash metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 2020 and part of the northeast's small but growing heavy metal underground. They combine the melodic ambition of power metal with thrash metal's velocity and aggression, an approach that connects them to Brazil's long tradition of technically sharp, high-energy metal.
Bloomington, Indiana black metal act from the college town's underground, blending academic community with extreme metal's darkest impulses in the Hoosier State.
Cincinnati heavy metal project with five releases since 2014. Their catalog — spanning the French-titled Musiques immobiles and the blunt Indifferent — reveals a band comfortable with both Continental sophistication and American directness.
Avalanche Danger is a heavy metal band from Hosbach near Aschaffenburg in Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2021, delivering traditional heavy metal with the force their name implies. The band contributes to the Lower Franconia metal scene with their riff-driven approach.
Avalanched thrashes from Västerås since 2023. Their past-tense natural-disaster name drives compositions of overwhelming velocity from this Västmanland lake city.
Avaland crafts heavy metal, power metal, and symphonic metal from the Alpine city of Grenoble since 2009, creating epic, orchestrally-enriched compositions from the Isère valley. Their mythological-sounding name suits the fantastical scope of their genre-spanning ambitions.
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