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The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Arsafes merges industrial, melodic death, and groove metal from Moscow since 2012. Over a decade of genre-blending from the Russian capital, they have developed a mechanized approach to extreme melody.
South Amboy, New Jersey melodic death metal project with three releases since 2018. SPIRIT | DEATH and Undead deliver Scandinavian-influenced melodeath from the Jersey Shore, building a catalog that spans seven years of refined extremity.
Art of Silence creates melodic death, power, and thrash metal from Milan since 2009. Their paradoxical name — art crafted from the absence of sound — contrasts with the multi-genre metallic assault they deliver from Lombardy.
Artas has delivered melodic death and thrash metal with metalcore influences from Vienna since 2008. Over nearly two decades in the Austrian capital, they have built a reputation for aggressive yet accessible compositions that bridge Scandinavian melodeath with modern metalcore.
Artemesia delivers melodic death metal from Dzerzhinsky in the Moscow Region since 1995. Three decades from this Moscow suburb named after the Soviet secret police founder, they have produced one of Russia's longest-running melodic death metal legacies.
Denver melodic death metal project. The name — a play on Artemis, goddess of the hunt — signals a predatory approach to melodeath from Colorado's thriving metal scene.
Artgore crafts melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore from Kharkiv since 2023. From Ukraine's embattled second city, they channel artistic violence through melodically refined compositions.
Death/doom and melodic death metal band from Minsk, Belarus, blending the oppressive weight of doom-tinged death metal with melodic guitar work. Active in the Belarusian underground, they operate in the darker, more atmospheric end of the melodic death metal spectrum.
Artless is a melodic death metal band from Reichenbach im Vogtland in Saxony, Germany, active since 2001, representing over two decades of commitment to the genre from the rural Vogtland region near the Czech border. The band brings Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to one of eastern Germany's more remote metal communities.
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