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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Alkaphrah creates experimental raw black metal and ambient from Saint Petersburg since 2021. Named after a star in the Ursa Major constellation, their cosmic-lo-fi approach bridges stellar vastness with basement-level rawness.
Alkateya plays heavy and power metal from Lisbon as of 2025. Their phonetic spelling adds a distinctive visual identity to classic metal traditions from the Portuguese capital.
Alkatraz delivers groove and thrash metal from Katowice since 2012. Named after the infamous prison, their Upper Silesian sound carries the confined, pressure-cooked aggression of their namesake.
Alkatrazz delivers NWOBHM-inspired heavy metal from the Kent county town of Maidstone since 2021, channeling the inescapable intensity of the famous prison their name references. Their classic metal approach honors the golden age of British heavy metal.
Formed in Prague in 1991, Alkehol play a rough-edged brand of heavy metal crossed with punk rock, with alcohol as their defining lyrical theme. The band contributed tracks to several early 1990s Czech metal compilations, including Masters of Czech Metal, and have remained active and unsigned for over three decades.
Alkemia creates death and doom metal from Uppsala since 2023. Their alchemical name drives compositions that transmute the dual heaviness of death and doom from Sweden's ancient university capital.
Alkemisti channels black metal from Helsinki since 2024, their alchemical name suggesting a project intent on transmuting base elements into extreme metal gold. The project joins Helsinki's seemingly endless roster of black metal acts.
Alkemy channels deathcore from Bergamo since 2019, transmuting the base metals of hardcore breakdowns and death metal extremity into their own brand of modern heaviness. From this Lombard hill city beneath the Orobie Alps, they forge punishing compositions.
Alkera explores progressive metal from Istanbul since 2020. From the city that bridges Europe and Asia, they navigate complex compositional territory that reflects their transcontinental setting.
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