Houston blues rock legends. The original Texas heavy band — Billy Gibbons is a national treasure.

Álaghom is a progressive metal band from Morelia, Michoacán, formed in 2004 and active as an independent act. The band takes its name from Álaghom Naom, the Mayan goddess of consciousness and the mind, and explores ancient Mesoamerican cosmology, Zen philosophy, and esoteric themes across their catalog, which includes the 2008 full-length "Evolución mental" and a return to recording with the 2024 EP "Return to the Beginner's Mind".

Ánima de Luz is a symphonic metal band from Naucalpan, State of Mexico, whose name translates to "Soul of Light" in Spanish. Signed to Discos Misha, the band has released three full-lengths — "Trotamundos" (2009), "El fin del hombre" (2019), and "Orígenes" (2020) — with a fourth, "Metztli," arriving in 2026.

Ánimas Defunctorum is a black metal one-man project from Medellín, Colombia, formed in 2020 and released through Odio Eterno Producciones. The project explores a dark lyrical universe of abyss, madness, grief, suicide, and nocturnal despair rooted in the raw black metal tradition. Material is available through the band's Bandcamp page and on social media under the handle @odioeterno_producciones.

ÆGES is a Los Angeles, California post-hardcore and alternative metal band formed in 2011, featuring members drawn from Pelican, -16-, and The Rise. The band combines heavy, riff-forward guitar work rooted in 90s post-hardcore with melodic desert rock hooks and doom-inflected arrangements. Their 2014 album Above and Down Below is the centerpiece of their catalog, demonstrating an approach that draws from Quicksand, Soundgarden, and Queens of the Stone Age without directly imitating any of them. Their output is relatively limited in volume but appreciated within the underground heavy rock community for its density and craft.

Triumphant Power Metal from San Antonio.

Úden is a one-man funeral doom and dark ambient project from Santiago, Chile, formed in 2004, with thematic interests in hermeticism and philosophy. The project released two full-lengths, Úden (2011) and Ruinas (2012), through 9th Meridian Records, and returned to metal elements with the 2025 single Perpetuo Extranjero after a period of purely dark ambient output.

Bilingual industrial metal from Austin.