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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Boston power metal project named after the ancient name for Britain. Arthurian legend through New England melodic metal.
Albmara is a German melodic black metal project from Wiesbaden whose 2016 concept album Dunkelmahrs Buch spans nearly fifty minutes of epic, narrative-driven metal drawing from Germanic and Norse mythology. The limited-edition release, capped at one hundred copies with a twenty-page booklet, reflects the project's immersive storytelling ambitions across six compositions blending black, death, and viking metal elements.
Albor is a doom metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, formed in 2014 and active in the northeastern Brazilian underground scene. Their music draws on the slow, heavy, and mournful traditions of the genre, representing a rare outpost of doom metal in a region of Brazil better known for extreme and thrash styles.
Rogers, Ohio thrash metal project. The meta-name — simply 'Album' — is either brilliantly self-aware or deliberately confusing.
Alburnum blends atmospheric and folk black metal from an undisclosed Dutch location since 2022. Their botanical name — referring to the living wood just beneath tree bark — suggests organic, forest-connected black metal.
Alcahest channels black metal from the French underground since 2021, named after the legendary universal solvent of alchemy. Their name suggests music that dissolves all resistance, leaving only the pure essence of extreme metal.
Alcantaria crafts heavy metal from the southeastern coastal city of Kotka since 2019, adding to the Kymenlaakso region's growing metal community. Their name evokes medieval fortifications, fitting for a band building solid traditional metal foundations.
Alcatrax has played heavy and speed metal from Legnano, the historic Lombard battlefield town near Milan, since 2007. Their predatory-bird-inspired name captures the soaring aggression of their dual-genre approach.
Alcatraz are a thrash metal band from Kroměříž, Zlín Region, Czech Republic, whose Bandcamp catalog under the handle "alcatrazzz" documents their presence in the Moravian underground thrash scene. The band draws on the classic European thrash tradition and contributes to the Czech Republic's historically strong regional metal underground.
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