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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Ark Ascent explores progressive metal from London since 2019, their vessel-of-salvation name reflecting compositions that rise above the everyday. Their approach brings structural ambition to the English capital's metal scene.
New York City progressive power metal project with eleven releases since 2015. A prolific catalog spanning albums like Chalmers Santiago and Channels demonstrates restless creative ambition, blending technical virtuosity with melodic power from the heart of Manhattan.
Arkhamian explores progressive death metal from Lizzano near Taranto in Puglia since 2018. Sharing the Lovecraftian reference of their name with countless extreme metal acts, they distinguish themselves through progressive complexity from the rural Ionian coast.
Athens' Arkovlies blend death metal aggression with progressive metal complexity, creating compositions that shift between technical precision and visceral heaviness. Since 2017, they've developed a distinctive approach to progressive death metal.
Armed Cloud explores progressive metal from Nijmegen since 2015. Their militarized-weather name suggests the threatening potential of their compositions, rumbling with progressive complexity from the Netherlands' oldest city on the Waal River.
Arnaldo García is a Spanish progressive metal solo project launched in 2025, exploring the genre's technical and compositional possibilities through a singular artistic vision. The project represents the newest generation of Spain's progressive metal experimenters.
Green Bay, Wisconsin death metal and progressive project with three releases since 2013. Their full-length Irkalla — named after the Babylonian underworld — channels ancient Mesopotamian mythology through technically accomplished extremity from Packerland.
Aros merges progressive groove and death metal with hardcore from Koziatyn in the Vinnytsia Region since 2018. From this Ukrainian railway-junction town, they bring multi-genre ambition to compositions that bridge metal and hardcore.
Arrebol is a progressive metal project from Santiago, Chile that has released material including the album "Simplicity of the Moment" (2023) and the EP "Four Leagues Away" (2024), the latter issued as a limited digipack of 66 copies. The project's output blends progressive metal with atmospheric and extreme metal influences.
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