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Alitor explores progressive thrash metal from Inđija in Vojvodina since 2013. Over a decade from this northern Serbian town between Belgrade and Novi Sad, they have refined technically demanding thrash compositions.
Detroit heavy metal act that arrived in 2025 with WRATHBERRY, a substantial debut full-length. Motor City metal with enough swagger and riff-driven energy to honor the city's hard rock legacy.
Aliwen is a melodic metalcore band from Quilmes, in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, formed in 2016. The band self-released an EP in 2017 under their own name, establishing themselves as an independent act within Argentina's growing metalcore scene.
Alixer creates post-black metal from Lyon since 2022, a fresh addition to the Rhône-Alpes scene that has produced numerous acclaimed atmospheric and post-metal acts. Their sound extends black metal's boundaries through shimmering, post-rock-influenced textures.
Brooklyn doom metal project named after the alchemical universal solvent. Music that dissolves everything it touches.
Alkahest was an atmospheric black metal project from Minas Gerais, Brazil, active from 2011 until their split-up. Operating in the same rich Minas Gerais underground that produced seminal Brazilian extreme metal acts, the project explored atmospheric and ambient-influenced black metal with themes rooted in occultism, ritual, and the spiritual — a direction consistent with the atmospheric black metal current emerging across Brazil in the early 2010s. The band remained unsigned throughout their existence.
Alkali Metals fuses black and thrash metal from Leeds since 2020, their chemistry-class name referencing the most reactive elements on the periodic table. Their volatile scientific name suits the explosive nature of their dual-genre assault.
Chicago's Alkaline Trio carved out a darkly melodic niche in the punk rock landscape, with Matt Skiba's morbid lyricism and Dan Andriano's pop sensibilities creating a signature sound that bridged punk and goth. Albums like 'From Here to Infirmary' and 'Good Mourning' are essential entries in the 2000s punk canon, earning the trio a devoted following that has endured for decades.
Alkaloid is a German progressive and technical death metal band formed in Munich in 2013 by former members of Obscura, Triptykon, and Dark Fortress, including vocalist Morean and drummer Hannes Grossmann. The band's three albums — The Malkuth Grimoire (2015), Liquid Anatomy (2018), and Numen (2022) on Season of Mist — fuse brutal technical death metal with science fiction concepts, polyrhythmic complexity, and unexpected melodic turns, earning wide critical acclaim within the progressive death metal community. Their dense, intellectually ambitious compositions set them apart as one of the more distinctive acts in contemporary extreme metal.
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