Alcoholicaust is a black/death metal band from Bristol, Connecticut. Their 2014 full-length "Mutilation of the Holy" and 2012 EP "What Would Jesus Do" deliver anti-religious extreme metal with all the subtlety their name suggests.

Manchester, New Hampshire thrash metal project. The portmanteau combines binge drinking with mass destruction — party thrash from the Granite State.

Spokane, Washington melodic death metal project. The pseudo-academic study of drinking channeled through Scandinavian-influenced heaviness.

Alcyone is a progressive black metal band from Providence, Rhode Island. Named after the brightest star in the Pleiades, the band's "Cult Of Kukulkan" EP draws from Mesoamerican mythology, blending progressive complexity with black metal intensity.

Ald is a black metal project from Arena, Wisconsin. Their 2012 full-length "Music for Download!" is a nine-track album from one of rural Wisconsin's most unlikely black metal outposts.

Tacoma, Washington black metal project. One of the Pacific Northwest's most acclaimed atmospheric black metal acts, drawing from the region's forests for deeply organic, folk-inflected extremity.

Aldebaran is a funeral doom and sludge metal band from Portland, Oregon. Named after the red giant star, the band's two releases — including the 2008 full-length "...From Forgotten Tombs" — deliver the kind of glacial, earth-shaking heaviness that defines Portland's storied doom scene.

Aldegar is a folk/Viking metal band from Gig Harbor, Washington. Their 2016 full-length "The Peak" delivers eleven tracks of epic folk metal inspired by Norse mythology and Pacific Northwest grandeur.

Aldheorte is a black metal band from Los Angeles. With a 2023 EP and 2024 full-length "Where Gods Have Eyes To See," the project has quickly established itself in LA's thriving black metal underground.