Austere

There are multiple artists with this name: 1.) Australian Black Metal with two full length albums: Withering Illusions and Desolation and To Lay Like Old Ashes. They have also released two splits, one with the German, Isolation, and one with Lyrinx from the United Kingdom: http://www.myspace.com/bandaustere 2.) Austere is an ambient-electronic group based in Portland, Oregon. It is unknown who they are, because the group thinks that the music is the important matter and not who is behind it. They have been releasing music since 1998 and are distributed by Hypnos Online: http://austere.org/