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Featured Album
People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Among the Shadows (2024)
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Aeon Moon crafts melodic black metal from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2022. Their cosmic-temporal name — an age of lunar significance — drives compositions of melodic darkness.
Aeon Nova is a progressive metal project from Austin, Texas, still in its early stages of development.
Aeon of Awareness creates melodic death metal from Leipzig since 2021, bringing Gothenburg-style guitar harmonies to Saxony's cultural capital. Their enlightenment-themed name drives compositions that pair visceral aggression with moments of melodic clarity.
Aeon of Death channels melodic death and black metal from Chișinău since 2005. Two decades of activity from the Moldovan capital have produced compositions that pair melodic sophistication with black metal's atmospheric hostility.
Aeon of Disease delivers death metal from Vechta in Lower Saxony since 2019. From this agricultural county seat, they spread musical contagion through compositions steeped in pestilential imagery and grinding brutality.
Aeon of Eternal creates atmospheric doom and death metal from Kraków since 2021. From Poland's cultural capital beneath Wawel Castle, they craft compositions of vast, melancholic heaviness.
Ocala, Florida progressive metal project channeling epic ambition from Central Florida's horse country.
Aeon Rite crafts atmospheric black metal from the eastern Finnish city of Joensuu since 2019, layering expansive soundscapes over tremolo-driven foundations. Their ritualistic name evokes the cyclical nature of their atmospheric compositions.
Aeon Sun crafts symphonic metal from Sibiu in Transylvania since 2015. From this magnificently preserved Saxon-founded city in the Carpathian Basin, they pair orchestral grandeur with the dramatic landscape of southern Transylvania.
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