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Agares was a black metal band from Tegucigalpa, Francisco Morazán, Honduras, active from 2006 to 2007. The band released a demo in 2007 and later appeared on the split Our Majesty Abomination (2022) via Croquemort Productions, the only label release associated with the project. Their material centers on themes of chaos and misotheism.
Agaroth is a heavy and power metal band from Miguelturra in Ciudad Real province, Spain, formed in 2015, delivering traditional power and heavy metal from the heart of Castilla-La Mancha. The band brings the genre's melodic power and driving energy to the central Spanish plains.
Agartha is a black metal project from Nashville, Tennessee. With four releases between 2015 and 2019, the project explores experimental territory under the banner of black metal, drawing its name from the legendary subterranean civilization of occult mythology.
Milwaukee black metal project. The name evokes Agartha, the legendary underground kingdom, from Beer City.
Agarwaen is a black metal project named after the Sindarin word meaning 'bloodstained' from Tolkien's legendarium. Their 2019 debut "Dottore I" delivers eight tracks of Tolkien-inspired black metal.
Agarwean merges death and thrash metal from Kutná Hora, the Czech city famous for its Sedlec Ossuary bone church, since 2019. Their setting amid tens of thousands of artistically arranged human skeletons provides macabre context for their extreme metal.
Agasch are a Bavarian black metal band who describe themselves simply as 'German Black Metal from Bavaria,' drawing on the region's dense forests for their atmospheric sound. Their releases — including the 2020 demo Umnachtete Gestalt des Inneren Wesens, Irrlicht, Waldgeist, and Realisation der Illusion — are steeped in German-language mysticism and woodland imagery.
Agasia blends blackened sludge metal with crust punk from Turku since 2013. From Finland's former capital on the southwestern coast, they create a corrosive fusion that draws equally from extreme metal and DIY punk traditions.
Agathodaimon are a symphonic and gothic black metal band from Mainz, Germany, active since their 1996 Carpe Noctem demo, with nine releases spanning nearly three decades. From their Nuclear Blast debut Blacken the Angel through their 2022 album The Seven, they have been one of Germany's most enduring dark metal acts, blending orchestral grandeur with black metal intensity.
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