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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Akphaezya crafts wildly eclectic avant-garde progressive metal from Orléans, drawing from sources as diverse as Mr. Bungle, Queen, and death metal across conceptual albums like "The Tragedy of Nerak." Their genre-defying approach, blending metal with jazz and theatrical elements, has made them one of France's most adventurous and unpredictable acts.
Chicago progressive metal project. Experimental heaviness from the Windy City's boundary-pushing underground.
Akribi explores progressive and gothic metal with rock elements from Gothenburg since 2020. Their Greek-derived name meaning 'precision' drives carefully constructed compositions from Sweden's western musical capital.
Akroma weaves black metal, progressive metal, and symphonic metal from Nancy since 2006, creating dramatic, orchestrally rich compositions from the Lorraine capital. Their multi-genre fusion produces a sound as architecturally complex as their historic city.
Akron weaves atmospheric doom with progressive metal from Genoa since 2011, their name shared with the Ohio industrial city but their sound rooted firmly in Ligurian maritime melancholy. Their patient, layered compositions reward listeners who surrender to their deliberate pace.
Zagreb's Akrosom have been crafting progressive metal of considerable ambition since 2008, building intricate compositions that challenge listeners with complex arrangements and dynamic shifts. Their long career reflects a commitment to artistic evolution.
Aku explores experimental and progressive groove metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2013. Their brief, punchy name — meaning 'evil' in Finnish — carries a concentrated malevolence through genre-bending compositions.
Al Andalus is an instrumental symphonic and folk metal project from Dresden, Germany, weaving Oriental melodies and orchestral arrangements into heavy metal compositions inspired by medieval Iberian history. Their 2016 Granada EP traces the arc of the Reconquista through six tracks, released on the 555th anniversary of the Treaty of Granada that ended Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula.
Al Joseph is a progressive metal and shred guitarist originally from Boston, now based in Los Angeles. His 2013 full-length "Out In The Open" showcases virtuosic guitar work within a progressive metal framework, bridging the worlds of technical shred and melodic composition.
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