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 also released two splits, one with the German Isolation, and one with Lyrinx from the United Kingdom, the band was ended in 2010: http://www.myspace.com/bandaustere 2) Austere is an ambient-electronic group based in Portland, Oregon.
1) Australian black metal with two full length albums: Withering Illusions and Desolation and To Lay Like Old Ashes. They also released two splits, one with the German Isolation, and one with Lyrinx from the United Kingdom, the band was ended in 2010: 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/
3) American black metal band, with a few demos in 2006 and an EP in 2007: http://www.myspace.com/austereband
4) Austere is a solo project of an Alberta born musician by the name of James McEwen: http://www.myspace.com/austere1
5) A post-rock band from Bristol, UK: http://www.myspace.com/austereuk