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San Diego death metal and progressive project named after the character from Dan Simmons' Hyperion saga. Sci-fi-influenced extremity from Southern California.
Aeneas explores progressive metal from Lučenec near the Hungarian border since 2024. Named after the Trojan hero who founded Rome, they bring classical mythological ambition to progressive compositions from southern Slovakia.
Aenfrz channels raw depressive black metal and dark ambient from Chernivtsi in western Ukraine since 2019. Their consonant-heavy, vowel-stripped name mirrors the airless, suffocating quality of their Bukovinian DSBM.
Aenigma is a black metal, death metal, and melodic death metal band from Alfeld an der Leine in Lower Saxony, Germany, active since 2016. Not to be confused with the Canadian hard rock act of the same name, this German incarnation channels multiple strands of extreme metal into a potent hybrid rooted in the province's quiet countryside.
Aenimus was a technical death metal and deathcore band from Santa Rosa, California, formed in 2010. They released their debut Transcend Reality in 2013 independently, followed by Dreamcatcher in 2019 on Nuclear Blast Records, which displayed a more progressive and melodic dimension alongside their technical death metal core. The band dissolved in 2024, having earned comparisons to Whitechapel and Veil of Maya during their run.
Athens' Aenos craft atmospheric black metal of windswept grandeur, evoking the rugged Greek landscape through expansive compositions rich in tremolo melodies and ambient passages. Since 2021, the project has explored the contemplative, nature-inspired side of the genre.
Aeolian Winds is a funeral doom and classical music project from New York City. Bridging the worlds of extreme metal and composed classical music, the project has released material ranging from piano compositions to glacial funeral doom, including the EP "Upon a Dead Horizon" and pieces written for solo piano.
Greek black metal project Aeolith have been active since 2009, drawing their name from geological formations shaped by wind, which mirrors their approach to black metal: raw, elemental, and shaped by natural forces. Their sound strips the genre to its essential components of tremolo riffing and atmospheric intensity.
Aeon is a black metal project from Innsbruck, Tyrol, releasing music under the handle aeon666 on Bandcamp. The project is part of the active but largely subterranean Alpine black metal underground, built around the stripped aesthetics and misanthropic themes central to the second-wave tradition.
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