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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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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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Avoid the Light crafts post-black metal from Mantua in Lombardy since 2015. Their photophobic name suggests a retreat from illumination into the atmospheric shadows of post-black metal, appropriate from the city of Virgil.
Avoidance channels melodic death metal from an undisclosed Hungarian location, having formed in 2022. Their name suggests withdrawal, but their Scandinavian-influenced guitar harmonies and aggressive vocals are anything but retreating.
Avoimen Haudan Löyhkä, meaning "the stench of an open grave" in Finnish, has been delivering death metal from Turku since 2007. Their unflinchingly descriptive name leaves no doubt about the putrid, old-school death metal they specialize in.
Avolia is a black metal act from Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2025. Their debut album Falls Upon the Earth, released in January 2025, delivers atmospheric and misanthropic black metal built around themes of apocalypse, esoteric mythology, and existential collapse — referencing Hyperborean imagery alongside relentless nihilism. A second album, Vazio, Mórbido, Sem Vida, followed later the same year, marking them as one of Brazil's more prolific new black metal voices.
Avowal is a progressive black and death metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2019, whose 2020 EP Transformation delivers three tracks of intensely dissonant metal described as stankface-inducing ugliness. The band is equally known for their handcrafted physical releases, including custom USB boxes containing hourglasses filled with dried blood, released through Total Dissonance Worship.
AVRALIZE emerged from Rottweil as a modern metalcore band built around heavy riffs, sharp screams, electronic textures, and rhythmically elastic grooves. The members had earlier roots together under another name, but the AVRALIZE identity took shape in 2023 and quickly gave the group a clearer, more contemporary direction. Their 2024 debut album FREAKS introduced a sound that fused breakdown-driven aggression with bright production, djent-influenced guitar work, melodic hooks, and a playful sense of movement. Rather than leaning only on heaviness, the band often threads danceable pulses and futuristic atmospheres into its arrangements, giving the music a slick, high-energy contrast. Follow-up singles and the album liminal expanded that palette, pushing emotional lyrics and bigger choruses against pummeling low-end sections. AVRALIZE has also become active on European festival and club stages, where the band's material is shaped for both physical impact and melodic immediacy.
Avsked is a black metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2017, whose Swedish name meaning 'farewell' suggests melancholic and terminal themes within their black metal framework. The band adds to Berlin's diverse and expansive extreme metal community.
Avskräde practices black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2021. Their Swedish name meaning 'garbage' or 'refuse' drives deliberately lo-fi compositions of trashy, raw hostility.
Avsky explores progressive doom metal from Jakobsberg in the Stockholm metropolitan area since 2006. Their Swedish name meaning 'disgust' drives two decades of patient, elaborately constructed compositions from the western suburbs.
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