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Aabsynthum has crafted funeral doom metal from Bârlad in Vaslui County since 2009. Their absinthe-derived name drives glacially paced compositions of intoxicating heaviness from this Moldavian town in eastern Romania.
Thibodaux, Louisiana sludge metal project. Bayou heaviness from the sugarcane country of southeastern Louisiana.
Aag is an atmospheric black metal project from Minsk, Belarus, whose Bandcamp page lists releases including "Back to Tellus," "Interstellar Desolation," "Into the Crypts Beyond the Stars," and "Universe Eliminated." The project channels desolate, cosmic themes across a series of self-released full-lengths rooted in the raw Belarusian black metal underground.
Aahas is a Salzburg-based black metal band who released their album When Cold Winds Are Calling Me in 2015, featuring raw, German-language compositions with titles like 'Des Winters Zorn' and 'Priestermord.' Their sound sits firmly in the atmospheric end of Austrian black metal, emphasizing cold, wintry textures and anti-religious themes.
Veszprem's Aak channel cold, austere black metal from the historic city above Lake Balaton. Since 2022, the project has crafted raw, atmospheric compositions that draw from the second-wave tradition.
Aal explores progressive death metal from Vilnius since 2020. Their concise name — meaning 'eel' in several languages — belies the slippery, technically ambitious nature of their compositions from the Lithuanian capital.
Aamon takes its name from a Great Marquis of Hell in demonological tradition and has practiced black metal from the Lazio region since 2021. Their infernal nomenclature drives a sound rooted in occult malevolence and ritualistic atmosphere.
A two-piece raw black metal band that began as a collaboration between Santa Catarina and Espírito Santo before the lineup shifted to a Santa Catarina / Minas Gerais axis, with Krakör handling vocals and Aamon on instruments. Signed to Madre Muerte, their lyrics explore paganism, nature mysticism, and spiritual hatred in the tradition of stripped-down South American black metal.
Aamonhammer is a black/thrash metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, emerging from the same fertile extreme metal underground that produced Sarcófago and Sepultura. The band pursues a raw, aggressive fusion of black and thrash metal rooted in the early Brazilian extreme metal tradition. They are listed as split-up on Metal Archives.
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