Asunder was a notable funeral doom/death metal

Death metal

Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes....

 band that formed in 1998 in Oakland, California. Their dummer/vocalist, Dino Sommese, has also been a member of Ghoul

Ghoul (band)

Ghoul is a thrash metal band from Oakland, California. Though the members' actual identities are meant to be concealed, it is known that some members of Ghoul also play or have played in other bands such as Impaled, Dystopia, Wolves in the Throne Room, Exhumed, Phobia, Asunder and Morbosidad...

, and Dystopia

Dystopia (band)

Formed in Orange County, California in 1991, Dystopia was a sludge metal band, popular in both the heavy metal and crust punk scenes, due in large part to their bleak, misanthropic imagery...

, as well as being a session musician for Wolves in the Throne Room

Wolves in the Throne Room

Wolves in the Throne Room is a black metal band based in Olympia, Washington.Their sound is influenced by Scandinavian black metal, doom metal, dark ambient, crust punk, and folk music...

. Guitarist John Gossard was also the guitarist and vocalist of Bay Area black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band Weakling

Weakling

Weakling was a progressive/black metal band from San Francisco. The band never toured and released only one album, Dead As Dreams, recorded in 1998 and released on Tumult Records in 2000.-History:...

, as well as another band entitled The Gault. Salvador Raya currently plays for the band Laudanum

In 2010, the band announced that it had split in November 2009. In the wake of the band's demise, John Gossard has formed a new black metal

Black metal

Black metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. Common traits include fast tempos, shrieked vocals, highly distorted guitars played with tremolo picking, blast beat drumming, raw recording, and unconventional song structure....

 band, Dispirit. The fate of the band's final work, a collaboration with Corrupted

Corrupted (band)

Corrupted are a Japanese doom/sludge metal band. They are known for their antipathy towards mainstream acceptance, even in their subgenre, which naturally tends towards obscurity. This is reflected not only in their dark and oppressive musical style but their reclusive nature, avoiding interviews...

, is unknown, although a live version recorded by a radio station has surfaced on the Internet.

Discography

• Split LP with Like Flies on Flesh (2000)
• A Clarion Call LP (2004)
• Split LP with Graves at Sea (2005)
• Works Will Come Undone LP (2006)