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Akloleh is a black/death metal band from Juneau, Alaska. With three releases in 2023-2024, the band brings extreme metal to one of the most isolated state capitals in America, surrounded by glaciers, rainforest, and the Tongass.
Akma delivers death and melodic death metal from the Haukipudas and Oulu area in northern Finland. Their sound carries the raw intensity of Finland's subarctic metal communities, blending melodic sensibility with death metal's fundamental aggression.
Akolouthos is a black metal project from California. Their two 2022 EPs — "Descent into the Withering Forest" and "Last Ride of the Dishonored Guard" — evoke fantasy narratives through raw black metal.
Akoman practices black metal from Vyshhorod near Kyiv since 2011. Named after the Zoroastrian demon of evil thought, nearly fifteen years of activity from this ancient Kyivan Rus' fortress town have produced committed black metal.
Akphaezya crafts wildly eclectic avant-garde progressive metal from Orléans, drawing from sources as diverse as Mr. Bungle, Queen, and death metal across conceptual albums like "The Tragedy of Nerak." Their genre-defying approach, blending metal with jazz and theatrical elements, has made them one of France's most adventurous and unpredictable acts.
Akraia is a Hamburg-based side project of members from the band Kavrila, featuring Miltiadis Karanastassis on bass and vocals and Alex Bujack on drums. Their self-described 'abyssal black doom' draws on Greek mythology across releases like the Tartarus/Persephone EP and the 2022 full-length Mistress, blending sludge, doom, and black metal into a dark, oppressive sound.
Akral Necrosis has established itself as one of Romania's most distinctive black metal acts from Bucharest since 2011. Their medical-extremity name — 'akral necrosis' describing tissue death at the body's peripheries — drives over a decade of critically respected black metal.
Akraniuum is a Brazilian death metal and grindcore band active since 1992, making them one of the longer-running acts in Brazil's extreme underground. Their three-decade career places them in the same generational wave as the country's foundational extreme metal groups, combining the blasting brutality of grindcore with the riff structures of death metal.
Akrasia is a black metal band from Salem, Massachusetts — a city whose witchcraft history makes it a fitting home for extreme metal. With eleven releases spanning 2011 to 2026, the project has been a prolific and enduring presence in the New England black metal underground.
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