Milwaukee black metal project. The name evokes Agartha, the legendary underground kingdom, from Beer City.

Agarwaen is a black metal project named after the Sindarin word meaning 'bloodstained' from Tolkien's legendarium. Their 2019 debut "Dottore I" delivers eight tracks of Tolkien-inspired black metal.

AGE is a heavy metal and rock band from San Jose, California. Exceptionally prolific since 2022, the band has released fourteen records in three years, including multiple full-lengths and EPs that range across hard rock and traditional heavy metal territory.

Age of Apocalypse is a New York hardcore band that incorporates heavy and thrash metal into their breakneck attack. Their 2025 full-length "In Oblivion" arrived on Closed Casket Activities and cemented the band's reputation as one of the hardest-hitting acts in modern NYHC.

Age of Darkness is a black and death metal band from Calexico, California, just miles from the Mexican border. Their 2022 full-length "As Essence Left Your Soul" and EP "Mental Crisis" bring extreme metal to one of the most remote stretches of the US-Mexico borderlands.

Lexington, Kentucky doom metal project. Entropy and collapse rendered in crushing heaviness from the Bluegrass capital.

Age of Despair is a melodic thrash and heavy metal band from Raleigh, North Carolina. Their 2024 EP "Merciless World" delivers four tracks of melodic thrash with an old-school heavy metal backbone.

Scottsdale, Arizona NWOTHM project. Classic heavy metal from one of the Valley of the Sun's most affluent suburbs.

Age of Fire is a heavy and thrash metal band that started in South Florida before relocating to Charlottesville, Virginia. With six releases spanning 2019 to 2025 — including a 30th anniversary reissue — the band is a veteran act that has persisted through decades and geography changes.