Aetheric is a melodic death metal project from Minneapolis, Minnesota. With nine releases since 2018 — including two full-lengths "delirium" and "dying embers" — the project has built a substantial body of atmospheric, emotionally textured melodic death metal with an introspective, lowercase-aesthetic sensibility.

Aetheric Existence is a symphonic blackened death metal project from New Hampshire. Their two full-lengths — "H o r r i f i c a" (2021) and a 2023 remaster — layer sweeping symphonic arrangements over blackened death metal, creating a dense and dramatic sound.

Aetherius is a progressive metal band from North Chelmsford, Massachusetts. One of the most prolific acts in New England prog metal, the band has released four full-lengths and seven EPs since 2019, with titles like "Razed Youth" and "Things I Cannot Change" reflecting a deeply personal and emotionally driven approach to heavy progressive music.

Aethyrium is a melodic black/death metal project from Portland, Oregon. Their 2016 demo introduced the project's blend of melodic sensibility with the raw intensity of black and death metal, rooted in Portland's thriving extreme music scene.

Aetos is a black and heavy metal band from Chicago with a career stretching back to 2009. Across five full-lengths and two EPs, the band has charted an eclectic path — from "I am 1991" through "False Flag" to 2024's "Love in Unfavored Light" — blending black metal's abrasiveness with heavy metal's accessibility in unpredictable ways.

Aetranok is a black metal project that originated in Aztec, New Mexico before relocating to Durango, Colorado. Their 2018 EP "Kingdoms of the Black Sepulcher" delivers seven tracks of occult-themed black metal from the Four Corners region, one of the most remote corners of the American metal underground.

Oak Grove, Missouri thrash metal project. Eternal aggression from the Kansas City suburbs.

Aevi is a post-black metal and post-rock project from Bend, Oregon. The project blends the atmospheric qualities of both genres against the backdrop of Central Oregon's high desert landscape.

New York City death metal project. The name — evoking eternity — channels timeless brutality from Manhattan.