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Alcstones plays speed and heavy metal with hard rock influences from Verona since 2023. Their name, a portmanteau suggesting alchemical stones, drives a sound rooted in the classic traditions of metal's most foundational subgenres.
Alcyon merges heavy and progressive metal from the Pyrenean town of Tarbes since 2018, channeling the mountainous grandeur of the Hautes-Pyrénées into ambitious compositions. Their mythological name, referencing the halcyon bird, evokes a calm that belies their sonic weight.
Alcyona is a symphonic metal band from Minsk, Belarus, formed in 2012 and driven by keyboardist and principal composer Natalia Malei. Signed to Pride & Joy Music, the band released their debut album "Trailblazer" (2018), recorded at ALCYONA Records in Minsk, featuring female lead vocals atop orchestrated heavy metal that Malei calls "Symphonic/Landscape metal."
Alcyone is a progressive black metal band from Providence, Rhode Island. Named after the brightest star in the Pleiades, the band's "Cult Of Kukulkan" EP draws from Mesoamerican mythology, blending progressive complexity with black metal intensity.
Ald is a black metal project from Arena, Wisconsin. Their 2012 full-length "Music for Download!" is a nine-track album from one of rural Wisconsin's most unlikely black metal outposts.
Ald Daedroth is a one-person Austrian raw ambient black metal project drawing direct lyrical and conceptual inspiration from the Elder Scrolls video game universe, with releases including Blizzards of the Bloodmoon and Chamber of Tukushapal. The project operates under Blackflame Records and sits at the crossroads of raw black metal, dark ambient, and video game lore, carving out an unusual niche in the underground.
Tacoma, Washington black metal project. One of the Pacific Northwest's most acclaimed atmospheric black metal acts, drawing from the region's forests for deeply organic, folk-inflected extremity.
Aldaaron channels black metal with pagan elements from the Alpine city of Grenoble since 2007, drawing from the pre-Christian traditions and mountain mythology of the Dauphiné. Their nearly two-decade commitment to atmospheric pagan black metal has made them a fixture of the Isère underground.
Aldebaran is a funeral doom and sludge metal band from Portland, Oregon. Named after the red giant star, the band's two releases — including the 2008 full-length "...From Forgotten Tombs" — deliver the kind of glacial, earth-shaking heaviness that defines Portland's storied doom scene.
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