One of Holland's first extreme metal outfits, Asphyx emerged in the late 1980s and proceeded to unleash an unrelenting amalgam of death and doom metal. The band spent a considerable chunk of the next decade and beyond tearing up the metal underground and cycling through personnel before finding some stability with the release of 2009's Death...The Brutal Way. Subsequent efforts like Incoming Death (2016) and Necroceros (2021) saw the group, which by this time included no original members, in full command of their uncompromising death-doom sound.