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San Francisco thrash metal project. The alchemical text name adds mystical weight to Bay Area speed.
Alchemist is a thrash/groove metal band from Los Angeles with a prolific output of fifteen releases between 2018 and 2020. The project's rapid-fire catalog includes EPs with names like "Bread" and "BOLDFACE," suggesting an irreverent approach to heavy music.
Alchemist was a thrash metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, formed in 2013 and active in the southern Brazilian underground scene before splitting up. Operating independently, the band released music through their Bandcamp page "alclaboratories" and were part of a thrash revival wave in Porto Alegre, a city with a strong tradition in Brazilian heavy music.
Alchemy is a black metal band from Fall City, Washington. With thirteen releases since 2022 — many with Japanese-language titles — the project blends black metal with Eastern cultural aesthetics in a distinctive fusion.
Alchemy is a heavy and doom metal band from Rio de Janeiro, formed in 2020 and currently on hold. Drawing on traditional doom's slow tempos and heavy riffing blended with classic heavy metal songwriting, the band reflects influences from the genre's founding acts while operating independently within Rio de Janeiro's underground metal scene.
Alchemy of Death explores progressive metal and various styles from Iași in Moldavia since 2013. From Romania's cultural capital of the east, they transform death's base materials through progressive experimentation.
Alchemy of Flesh is a death metal band from Athens, Georgia. Their two full-lengths — "Ageless Abominations" (2021) and "By Will Alone" (2023) — have earned attention in the underground death metal world for their precise, riff-focused approach to old-school death metal.
Alchemyst is a black and death metal band from Thuringia, Germany, formed in 2022, working within the raw and aggressive extremes of the German underground. The band's output channels the ferocity of both genres into a corrosive blend characteristic of the Thuringian metal scene.
Alchil plays speed and power metal from Partanna in Trapani province, deep in western Sicily, since 2011. Their presence in this remote corner of the island demonstrates the reach of classic European metal traditions into Italy's most peripheral communities.
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