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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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When Everything Means Nothing (Cinematic) (2021)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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ArrenkaPins operates at the unusual crossroads of black metal, heavy metal, and melodic black metal from Badalona since 2012. This genre-blending approach creates a sound that is distinctly their own within Barcelona's satellite city scene.
Arrghus is a one-man black metal project from Chihuahua, Mexico, formed in 2020 by multi-instrumentalist Axel Hernández. Their debut album Flumen Tenebris, released in November 2020, is a conceptual work centered on dark fantasy mythology — a narrative conflict between the Dark Troops of the Moon and a forest river kingdom. The project fuses old-school black metal with dark ambient elements across a fully self-produced effort.
Anchorage, Alaska black metal project drawing from the Last Frontier's extreme isolation and brutal winters to fuel genuinely cold and desolate atmospheric black metal.
Arrogant Destruktor channels black metal from Birmingham since 2014, their deliberately antagonistic name matching the confrontational nature of their sound. Over a decade of Second City extremity connects them to Birmingham's rich metal heritage.
Arroganz merges black and death metal from Cottbus in Brandenburg since 2013, their German name meaning 'arrogance' matching the bold confidence of their Eastern German extremity. From the Lusatian capital near the Polish border, they craft music of defiant hostility.
Ars Diavoli crafts depressive black metal and ambient from Faro, the capital of the Algarve, since 2006. Their Latin name meaning 'art of the devil' has guided two decades of melancholic extremity from Portugal's southernmost provincial capital.
Ars Luciferi explores progressive black metal from Reggio di Calabria at the toe of Italy's boot since 2020. Their Latin name meaning 'art of the light-bearer' drives compositions that seek illumination through darkness from mainland Italy's southernmost major city.
Ars Magna Umbrae crafts atmospheric black metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2017. Their Latin name meaning 'great art of shadows' drives compositions of immersive, enveloping darkness.
Ars Nocturna channels melodic death and black metal from Stavropol since 2017. Their Latin name meaning 'nocturnal art' drives compositions of nighttime extremity from this North Caucasus capital.
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