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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.
Aeons Pass explores progressive metal and djent from Cloppenburg in Lower Saxony since 2016. From this rural Oldenburg Münsterland town, they craft polyrhythmic, technically ambitious compositions that belie their small-town origins.
Aeonus crafts atmospheric black metal from Yoshkar-Ola, the capital of the Mari El Republic, since 2017. From this distinctive Volga city — famous for its replica European architecture — they create atmospheric extremity rooted in the Finno-Ugric cultural landscape.
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.
AeoS are a progressive metal band from Wiesbaden, Germany, whose five-piece lineup delivers ambitious concept albums blending prog-metal with death metal and djent influences. Their 2016 album Memories of a Dead Man, eight years in the making, follows a condemned man's introspective journey inspired by Memento and Hamlet, showcasing the band's cinematic approach to heavy music.
Aephanemer is a French melodic death metal band formed in Toulouse in 2013, blending Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with symphonic orchestration and lyrics in both French and English. The band released their debut Memento mori in 2016 and signed to Napalm Records for subsequent albums including Prokopton (2019), A Dream of Wilderness (2021), and Utopie. Their sound draws on the classical and cinematic traditions of symphonic metal while maintaining the rhythmic directness of the melodic death metal genre.
Aequinoctium Sanguinis blends black metal with symphonic grandeur from Bordeaux since 2015, their Latin name meaning "equinox of blood" evoking ancient rituals at the turning of seasons. Their sound carries the ceremonial weight that their elaborate name promises.
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