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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Velika Gorica's Avicularia were Croatian avant-garde death metal innovators who fused the dissonance of Immolation with jagged, technical compositions on their acclaimed debut 'Born to Be Vile.' Active from 2003 to 2017, they stood out in the Croatian metal scene for their willingness to push extreme metal into unconventional territory.
Avidya Yax explores progressive metal from Cantabria since 2022, bringing a meditative dimension suggested by their Sanskrit-influenced name. Their approach infuses the genre's technical complexity with philosophical depth.
Aviendha creates doom and stoner metal from Bergen since 2020, named after a character from Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. Their fantasy-literary identity drives heavy, riff-worshipping compositions from the fjord city.
Avion is a melodic death metal band from Bad Kreuznach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, formed in 2018, combining Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal's harmonic guitar work with the genre's aggressive foundation. The band operates from the spa town in the Nahe valley.
Energetic post-hardcore from Dallas with emo-tinged melodies.
Avistortion is a symphonic metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2024, blending the grandeur of symphonic elements with alternative metal intensity and featuring three vocalists including award-winning American opera singer Stephanie DePrez alongside Sascha Herrmann and Joel Steve-Dawe. Guitarist and songwriter Soheil Bonakdarzadeh leads the project's compositions, which merge operatic vocal styles with heavy metal across tracks like Stranger No More and Selig.
Avitus was a melodic heavy metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, founded in 2019 and active for a brief period before disbanding. Operating in Belo Horizonte's rich metal tradition, they pursued a melodic approach to heavy metal before splitting up around the early 2020s.
Avlid channels atmospheric black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2020. Their Swedish name meaning 'deceased' or 'passed away' drives compositions of ghostly atmospheric beauty.
Avlivad creates death metal from Gothenburg since 2017. Their Swedish name meaning 'euthanized' drives compositions of clinical termination from the city that gave birth to melodic death metal.
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