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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Aevum has crafted symphonic metal from Turin since 2008, their Latin name meaning 'age' or 'eternity' reflecting the timeless quality they pursue through orchestral arrangements and powerful vocals. Nearly two decades of activity have established them within Piedmont's symphonic metal tradition.
Afar is an atmospheric and post-black metal project from New Jersey. Across five releases between 2018 and 2022, including the full-lengths "Rational Ecstasy" and "tell me more," the project navigates the space between black metal's intensity and post-rock's emotional expansiveness with an introspective, melancholic voice.
Afargang channels progressive folk metal from an undisclosed Norwegian location since 2022. Their Old Norse-derived name, suggesting a departing journey, guides compositions that blend folk instrumentation with progressive complexity.
Afasia explores progressive metal and rock from Rome as of 2025, named after the medical condition of impaired language ability. Paradoxically, their music seeks to communicate complex ideas through the elaborate vocabulary of progressive metal.
Afdod is a death metal band from Slagelse, Denmark, formed in 2025, whose Danish name meaning 'deceased' immediately establishes the morbid thematic territory of their death metal. The band is among the newest entries in the Danish extreme metal underground.
Richmond, Virginia doom and gothic metal project. Dark beauty and crushing weight from the former capital of the Confederacy.
Affected plays heavy and thrash metal from Miroslav in southern Moravia since 2021. From this small Czech wine-country town, they channel the twin traditions of heavy and thrash metal with agricultural-town grit.
Affective Insanity are a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Mainz, Germany, active since 2014, with releases including the album Post Mortem. Operating from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital, they blend death metal aggression with metalcore dynamics and melodic sensibility.
Afferatus delivers death metal from Tyumen in western Siberia since 2014. From this major oil-industry city, they channel over a decade of Siberian brutality through the industrial energy of the Tyumen region.
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