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Akuma is a pagan black metal band from Votuporanga, São Paulo, formed in 2013. They released the album "For The Beloved Bones" and describe their music with the cryptic motto "We came from the depths," signaling a dark, ritualistic aesthetic rooted in pagan and occult themes. The band operates within the Brazilian underground black metal scene.
Akusma crafts atmospheric post-metal from Ulyanovsk on the Volga since 2014. Named after the Pythagorean concept of sounds heard without seeing their source, their compositions explore the mystery of invisible sonic forces.
Akuã is a black metal project from São Paulo formed in 2018, whose name draws from indigenous Brazilian cultural and linguistic heritage — aligning them with a wave of Brazilian acts that channel native spiritual and pagan themes through the black metal form. Operating in the underground since their formation, they are part of São Paulo's diverse and sprawling extreme metal scene.
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania deathcore project. Franklin County breakdowns from the south-central PA borderlands.
Akyrviron is a symphonic epic power/folk metal band from Grants Pass, Oregon. With four releases between 2013 and 2020, the band crafts elaborate, multi-layered metal that draws from both European power metal grandeur and folk metal traditions.
Akys has evolved from blackened doom metal into dark ambient and neofolk from Vilnius as of 2025. Their stylistic metamorphosis mirrors a journey from metal extremity into more contemplative, acoustic-based darkness.
Akzent plays heavy and thrash metal from Rostov-on-Don since 2015. Their German-accented name — meaning 'accent' or 'emphasis' — drives over a decade of stressed, forceful metal from this major southern Russian city.
Al is a stoner/doom metal band from Grand Rapids, Michigan. With eleven releases since 2020, the project has been remarkably prolific, delivering a steady stream of hazy, riff-heavy stoner doom.
Al Andalus is an instrumental symphonic and folk metal project from Dresden, Germany, weaving Oriental melodies and orchestral arrangements into heavy metal compositions inspired by medieval Iberian history. Their 2016 Granada EP traces the arc of the Reconquista through six tracks, released on the 555th anniversary of the Treaty of Granada that ended Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula.
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