Avantgarde Music is an Italian

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, formed as a continuation of Obscure Plasma Records, focusing on

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and

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artists. The label had a sub-label called Wounded Love Records, which has released albums by Dolorian and Taake. A new sub-label, Flowing Downward, had been founded in 2018, specializing in

atmospheric black metal Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, a shrieking vocal style, heavily distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, raw (lo-fi) recording, unconventional song structures, and an emphas ...

bands specifically. Avantgarde Music's first release was the 1994 funeral doom classic '' Stream from the Heavens'' by Thergothon. The label has since signed many well-known black,

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and doom metal bands such as Behemoth, Carpathian Forest, Mayhem and

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Bands

* Abigor *Ad Hominem *Alternative 4 *Ancient Wisdom *Ashbringer *

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*Beatrik * Behemoth * Carpathian Forest * Dark Sanctuary * Darkspace *

Death SS Death SS (later also intended as a contraction of In Death of Steve Sylvester) is an Italian heavy metal band. Biography Death SS was formed in 1977 in Pesaro by Steve Sylvester (born Stefano Silvestri), a future member of the Ordo Templi Ori ...

Den Saakaldte Den Saakaldte is a Norwegian black metal supergroup, founded in 2006 by Mikael Sykelig, featuring members of Shining, 1349 and Dødheimsgard, among others.No Sign of Life DistributioNewsretrieved 21 September 2008. It takes its name from a song ...

Diabolical Masquerade Diabolical Masquerade was a Swedish one-man black metal band with progressive influences. The band was formed in 1993 in Stockholm as side project of Anders Nyström (aka Blakkheim), known for his work as the guitarist of Katatonia. History Dia ...

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* Dødheimsgard * Dolorian *Downfall of Nur *Drought *Dzö-nga *Enochian Crescent *Eternity * Evoken * Forgotten Tomb *Godkiller *Grey *Great Cold Emptiness * Katatonia * Kauan *

Keep of Kalessin Keep of Kalessin is an extreme metal band from Trondheim, Norway formed in 1993. The group's early lineup consisted of Ghash on vocals, Obsidian C. (the group founder) on guitars and keyboards, Warach on bass, and Vyl on drums. They released two ...

* Laburinthos * Lifelover * Mayhem *Mesarthim *

Mortuary Drape Mortuary Drape is an Italian black metal band formed in the 1980s. They have released five LPs. Discography * ''Necromancy'' (demo Demo, usually short for demonstration, may refer to: Music and film *Demo (music), a song typically recorded f ...

*Mysticum * Necrodeath *Nehëmah *Nocternity *Nocturnal Depression * Nortt * Novembers Doom * Obtained Enslavement * Opera IX *

Pan.Thy.Monium Pan.Thy.Monium was a Swedish avant-garde metal band formed and led by Dan Swanö with several members from another project of his, Edge of Sanity. The group disbanded in 1996, after recording ''Khaooohs and Kon-Fus-Ion''. The band wanted this la ...

*Saor *

Shade Empire Shade Empire is a Finnish symphonic black metal band, formed in 1999 in the city of Kuopio. Shade Empire's prevalent lyrical subjects are death, destruction, hatred, anti-religion and pain. The music on their first three official full-length ...

* Shining *Sojourner * Solefald *Sordide * Taake * Thergothon * This Empty Flow *

Throes of Dawn Throes of Dawn is a Finnish metal band. The group formed in 1994 by Henri Koivula (vocals) and Jani Heinola (synth). The band has been known as emotional dark metal. The band's sound is built on the combination of synths and guitars, laced with c ...

* Tormentor * Towards Darkness *

Ulver Ulver (Norwegian for "wolves") is a Norwegian experimental electronica band founded in 1993, by vocalist Kristoffer Rygg. Their early works, such as debut album '' Bergtatt'', were categorised as folklore-influenced black metal, but the band ha ...

Vials of Wrath Vials of Wrath are an American Christian metal band, who play a mixture of unblack metal and death metal music, with one member Dempsey "DC" Woodrow Mills Jr. He is from Princeton, West Virginia, however the band was formed in 2011 in Charlot ...

* Windfaerer *

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* Wolvencrown *

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References

* https://avantgardemusic.bandcamp.com/

External links

Official websiteAvantgarde Music
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