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Águila Guerrera is a power and heavy metal band from San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, formed in 2017 by a lineup that includes Fran on vocals and guitar, Matías and Lomu on guitars, Ale on bass, and Massi on drums. The band contributed to the regional compilation Heavy Metal Desde el Tucumán Volume 2 and performed at the Tucumán Metal Fest 2021, cementing their place in the province's metal community. They have also shared stages with touring national acts as part of the northern Argentine heavy metal circuit.
Álaghom is a progressive metal band from Morelia, Michoacán, formed in 2004 and active as an independent act. The band takes its name from Álaghom Naom, the Mayan goddess of consciousness and the mind, and explores ancient Mesoamerican cosmology, Zen philosophy, and esoteric themes across their catalog, which includes the 2008 full-length "Evolución mental" and a return to recording with the 2024 EP "Return to the Beginner's Mind".
Álef Hylliel is a prolific post-black metal and blackgaze project from Manaus, Brazil, blending tremolo-driven black metal with shoegaze atmospherics, ambient textures, and post-rock melody. Active since 2010, the project has built an extensive catalog of over a dozen albums on Bandcamp, including releases such as "失われた音" (Ushinawareta Oto), "Laniakea", and "Entre Amigos Depressivos", drawing on themes of depression, isolation, and introspection. The multilingual album titling — mixing Portuguese, English, and Japanese — reflects the project's broad atmospheric and emotional range within the DSBM-adjacent blackgaze space.
Ánima de Luz is a symphonic metal band from Naucalpan, State of Mexico, whose name translates to "Soul of Light" in Spanish. Signed to Discos Misha, the band has released three full-lengths — "Trotamundos" (2009), "El fin del hombre" (2019), and "Orígenes" (2020) — with a fourth, "Metztli," arriving in 2026.
Ánima Gélida is a black metal solo project by Buenos Aires-based musician Berenice Keher, who writes, records, and produces everything independently in her home studio. The project spans depressive, raw, and atmospheric black metal, with releases including Lumiere (2019), Simbelmyne-Entranced by Death (2020), Mordred (2022), and the 2023 album Luminaron.
Ánimas Defunctorum is a black metal one-man project from Medellín, Colombia, formed in 2020 and released through Odio Eterno Producciones. The project explores a dark lyrical universe of abyss, madness, grief, suicide, and nocturnal despair rooted in the raw black metal tradition. Material is available through the band's Bandcamp page and on social media under the handle @odioeterno_producciones.
Árstíðir is a Reykjavík, Iceland folk and chamber pop trio formed in 2008 by Daníel Auðunsson, Gunnar Már Jakobsson, and Ragnar Ólafsson, whose music draws on classical composition, minimalism, and indie folk built around intricate three-part vocal harmonies. The band gained international attention in 2013 when a video of the trio performing an a cappella Icelandic hymn at a German train station went viral, and the following year they became the first Icelandic act to win the Eiserner Eversteiner European Folk Music Award. Their discography spans albums including Hvel (2015), the collaborative Verloren Verleden (2016) with Anneke van Giersbergen, Nivalis (2018), and Blik (2023). They have remained fully independent throughout their career, operating their own label in Iceland.
Ártemis is a gothic/doom metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, with roots tracing back to 2001 and a reformation around 2010. The band deals in melancholic, atmospheric metal with lyrical themes of love, longing, and the moon, representing a rare voice in the gothic doom scene of Brazil's northeastern interior.
Ásmegin is a folk, black, and Viking metal band from Jevnaker, Norway, formed in 1998, whose name translates from Old Norse as "Might of the Æsir." Their debut album Hin Vordende Sod & Sø (2003), released on Napalm Records, established them as one of the more ambitious acts in the Norse folk metal tradition, blending black metal aggression with traditional folk melodies, violin, and dual clean and harsh vocals. A second album, Arv, followed in 2008. Lyrics are composed primarily in Norwegian and Old Norse, rooting the band firmly in Scandinavian literary and mythological tradition.
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