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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
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Avslag channels melodic black metal from Glauchau in Saxony since 2020. Their Scandinavian-language name meaning 'rejection' brings Nordic influence to their East German melodic black metal.
Avslut channels black metal from Stockholm since 2016. Their Swedish name meaning 'ending' or 'conclusion' drives a decade of black metal that explores finality from the Swedish capital.
Avsmak crafts melodic and technical death and black metal from Halmstad since 2019. Their Swedish name meaning 'distaste' drives compositions of refined repulsion from the western Swedish city that produced In Flames.
AVSR channels progressive melodic death metal from Jyväskylä in central Finland since 2024. Their abbreviated identity from this lakeland university city keeps the focus on their technically ambitious compositions.
Avtotheism has evolved from brutal to technical death metal from Brescia since 2017. Their name — suggesting self-deification — drives music of relentless technical precision from this Lombard industrial city.
Founded by the legendary Dave Rotten in 1991, Avulsed is one of Spain's most important death metal bands, with a discography spanning six full-lengths from "Eminence in Putrescence" to "Deathgeneration." Their three-decade run on labels like Repulse and Xtreem Music has made them a cornerstone of the Madrid extreme metal scene.
Nottinghamshire's Avulsion Rupture unleash a savage hybrid of black and death metal marked by clinical precision and visceral brutality. Active since 2014, their name alone telegraphs the uncompromising violence of their musical output.
Avund practices black metal and crust from Eskilstuna in Södermanland since 2017. Their Swedish name meaning 'envy' drives compositions that channel one of the seven deadly sins through punk-influenced black metal.
Avuytor is a black metal project from Ubá, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2021. Extraordinarily prolific for a relatively new band, they have released a string of albums on Bandcamp including The Black Age, Adffectus Tenebris, Transcedental, and Gólgota – O Lugar da Caveira, exploring dark and spiritual themes across a body of underground raw black metal.
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