Agartha is a black metal project from Nashville, Tennessee. With four releases between 2015 and 2019, the project explores experimental territory under the banner of black metal, drawing its name from the legendary subterranean civilization of occult mythology.

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.