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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Archurahl creates black metal and ambient from İzmir since 2022. Possibly related to Archura, their expanded name drives atmospheric compositions from the same Aegean city.
Archvile channels black metal from Norwich since 2020, their Doom-game-inspired name referencing one of the franchise's most feared enemies. Their East Anglian origins feed a distinctly modern approach to the genre.
Archvile King channels melodic black metal with thrash elements from Nantes since 2020, their video-game-inspired name referencing the fearsome Doom enemy. Their genre-blending approach creates a distinctly modern take on the French black metal tradition.
Archæic crafts melodic black metal from Bursa since 2024. Their deliberately archaic spelling drives compositions that reach back to ancient forms from this former Ottoman capital at the foot of Mount Uludağ.
Arckan Obscura channels black metal from the northern mining town of Sin-le-Noble since 2021, drawing from the industrial darkness of the Nord department. Their obscured arcane name suits music forged in one of France's grittiest post-industrial landscapes.
Arckanum has been one of Sweden's most distinctive and esoteric black metal projects from Mora in Dalarna, maintaining activity through various phases including from 2011 onward. Shamaatae's deeply personal vision of anti-cosmic Satanism and rune magic has made Arckanum a singular voice in Scandinavian black metal.
Arcmither emerged from Badajoz in 2024 as one of Extremadura's newest black metal voices, bringing extreme music to one of Spain's least represented metal regions. Their arrival signals growing activity in the western borderlands of the Iberian underground.
Arctic Dreams blends symphonic industrial black metal with death metal, originating from Saint Petersburg before relocating to Belgrade, active since 2022. Their frozen-vision name bridges Russian and Serbian extreme metal scenes through orchestrally enhanced industrial darkness.
Arctora operates at the intersection of black, death, and melodic death metal from the Finnish underground since 2014. Their Arctic-tinged name suits a sound that draws from the full frozen spectrum of Nordic extreme metal.
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