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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Aldheorte is a black metal band from Los Angeles. With a 2023 EP and 2024 full-length "Where Gods Have Eyes To See," the project has quickly established itself in LA's thriving black metal underground.
Aldikon creates melodic death metal from Blagoveshchensk on the Chinese border since 2018. From this Far Eastern city directly across the Amur River from the Chinese city of Heihe, they craft melodic extremity at the edge of two civilizations.
Aldor channels melodic death and thrash metal from Moscow since 2013. Over a decade in the Russian capital, they have crafted compositions that blend Scandinavian-influenced melody with thrash aggression.
Aldorfrea channels black metal from Lancashire since 2021, their Old English-sounding name evoking ancient Anglo-Saxon darkness. Their northwest English origins feed a sound rooted in the region's pre-Norman heritage.
Kingsport, Tennessee solo black metal project weaving melancholic atmosphere with tremolo-picked passages. The music draws on Appalachian isolation, blending raw production with surprisingly tender melodic sensibility.
A black metal band from Ghent operating as an underground independent act, with a presence on Bandcamp and Facebook. Little documentation is publicly available about their discography beyond their releases on the platform, keeping them firmly within the underground tier of the Belgian black metal scene.
Alea Iacta Est delivers grindcore from Galanta in western Slovakia since 2009. Their Latin phrase — Caesar's 'the die is cast' — drives fifteen years of irreversible blastbeat commitment.
Aleacion was a heavy metal band from San Juan, Argentina, active through the 1990s under the name Cromagnon before adopting the Aleacion name. The band released the EP "El combatiente" in 1995 and documented their live performances on the 1996 release "Vivos en el Auditorio Juan Victoria".
Aleera plays heavy metal from Zaporizhia since 2021. Named after one of Dracula's brides in the Van Helsing film, they bring vampiric theatricality to heavy metal from this Dnieper River industrial city.
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