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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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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.
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.
Art Far Away creates progressive death metal and metalcore from Gothenburg since 2014. Their distant-art name drives over a decade of ambitious compositions from the city that perfected melodic death metal.
Art in Motion explores progressive and thrash metal from Vilnius since 2015. Their kinetic name captures the dynamic, always-evolving quality of their compositions from the Lithuanian capital.
Art of Creation crafts progressive power metal from Zvolen since 2012. Their divine-creative name drives over a decade of technically ambitious compositions from this central Slovak Hron Valley city.
Art of Disorder is a 2025 progressive metal and rock project from Budapest, exploring the boundary between structured composition and creative chaos. Their name signals an embrace of controlled dissonance within Hungary's capital city music scene.
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