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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Free the Witch EP (2018)
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Ages of Night creates gothic and doom metal from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky since 2014. From the capital of the Kamchatka Peninsula — one of the most volcanically active places on Earth — they craft darkly romantic metal surrounded by fire-breathing mountains.
Agga is a thrash and black metal band from Naples, Florida. Their two 2023 EPs draw from ancient Sumerian mythology — "By the Fiery Scimitar of Shammash" and "Sumerian Tablets - The Origins of Human Creation" — wrapping historical mysticism in aggressive thrash-black metal.
Aggadah is a stoner/doom metal band from Salt Lake City, Utah. Named after the non-legalistic portions of the Talmud, the band's 2021 EP "Confessions" delivers five tracks of heavy, riff-driven doom from an unlikely theological angle.
Agger channels black metal from Paris since 2011, their Latin name meaning "earthwork" or "rampart" reflecting the defensive intensity of their sound. Over a decade of activity speaks to sustained commitment within the Parisian black metal underground.
Aggravated Assault is a thrash metal band from Fairfield, California. Their 2025 live recording from Transplants Brewing captures the raw energy of a thrash band in their element — playing a Christmas show at a local brewery.
Oklahoma City crossover thrash project. The legal charge upgraded to a musical assault from OKC.
Old-school thrash in the Kreator/Slayer vein, formed in 2008. Invited to play Inferno Festival in Oslo off the strength of their early demos.
Aggregate merges thrash and death metal from Hallsberg in Närke since 2015. Their collected-mass name drives a decade of combined aggression from this small Swedish railway junction town.
Aggregator plays heavy metal from Hamburg since 2018, their data-processing name carrying an industrial efficiency that suits the Hanseatic port city's mercantile heritage. Their approach aggregates the best elements of traditional heavy metal into a cohesive whole.
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