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Aeons Confer is the solo project of Hamburg musician Simon Wrobel, who composes, records, mixes, and masters everything himself, blending technical death metal with blackened industrial, symphonic, and djent elements. Their 2019 science-fiction concept album Zero Elysium tells the story of humanity's failed defense against an asteroid impact, delivered across ten tracks of unpredictable, genre-defying extreme metal.
Formed in St. Pölten in 2013, Aeons of Ashes play melodic death metal and metalcore with a sound that draws comparisons to Dark Tranquillity. Over a decade of activity has yielded albums including Shutdown (2014), Impatience (2017), and The Wasteland Chronicles (2023), with the addition of a second vocalist in 2023 expanding the band's dynamic range.
Glasgow, Kentucky death metal project. Cosmic-scale darkness from the Barren County cave country.
Thessaloniki's Aeons of Hate unleash a ferocious blend of black, death, and thrash metal, combining the aggression of all three genres into a relentless sonic assault. Active since 2015, they bring a multi-pronged approach to extreme metal that refuses to settle into a single style.
Aeonyzhar are an epic black metal band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2008, who fuse brutal riffs and blast beats with monumental orchestral and choral passages. Their approach reinterprets the atmosphere of nineties symphonic black metal through a modern lens, with releases like The Profane Era and Liberation showcasing their ambition to merge extremity with orchestral grandeur.
Aequiternus creates doom and death metal from Yekaterinburg since 2008. Their Latin name meaning 'equally eternal' drives nearly two decades of patient, crushing compositions from the Ural Mountains' largest city.
Aerecuga creates melodic death and doom metal from Zwolle in Overijssel since 2020. Their enigmatic name drives compositions that pair the melodic elegance of Scandinavian death metal with the ponderous weight of doom from the Hanseatic city.
A one-man melodic death metal project founded in early 2011 by guitarist and composer Karim Kerdoudi, drawing inspiration from Scandinavian melodic death metal. The project has released two full-lengths, Sweet Moment in Fifth Season (2013) and Alta alatis patent (2014), both self-produced and available through Bandcamp.
Death metal band from Locarno, in the Italian-speaking canton of Ticino, Switzerland, who reformed in autumn 2021 after roughly three decades of inactivity. Their releases—including "Sworn to the Grave," "Rehearsal Flatulences," and "Invoking the Filth"—foreground horror-oriented, splatter-themed lyrics in the tradition of old-school gore death metal.
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