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Orlando, Florida black metal project whose 2023 EP Vow of Dominion channels occult fury from Central Florida's theme park corridor. The Latin-inflected name promises subversion of sacred altars.
Arab Zaraq was a Brazilian black metal project active briefly in 2024 before splitting up, leaving minimal documentation in the underground. The name echoes the Qliphothic concept of A'arab Zaraq — the ravens of dispersion — a recurring reference point in occult black metal. Their release exists as a short-lived contribution to Brazil's prolific raw black metal underground.
Arabesco is a solo project from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2015 by multi-instrumentalist André Oliveira. The project blends acoustic elements with sludge and doom metal, creating a sparse and heavy sound rooted in the São Paulo underground scene.
Newark, Ohio death metal project with five releases since 2012. Albums like Human Consciousness Experiment and Acts to Continue in Breathless Sleep explore the boundaries of consciousness through punishing extremity from small-town central Ohio.
Arachna Signorum creates black and funeral doom metal from Pyatigorsk in the North Caucasus since 2009. Named after 'spider of signs,' their nearly two-decade body of work weaves dark web from this famous spa city at the foot of Mount Beshtau.
A death metal band from Tábor in South Bohemia, Arachne were active during the late 2000s and released tracks including Born for Ache and Power of Possession before disbanding in 2011. Their music occupied the straightforward, riff-heavy end of Czech death metal.
Athens, Ohio death/thrash metal project from the home of Ohio University. The arachnid name and college-town setting pair scientific taxonomy with Appalachian Ohio's blue-collar metal tradition.
Laguna Beach, California black metal project whose 2016 EP The Lucifer Effect — referencing Philip Zimbardo's study of human evil — channels psychological horror through black metal from one of Southern California's most affluent coastal towns.
Arachnotaur channels doom, drone, and sludge metal from the UK underground since 2022, their spider-bull hybrid name evoking a monstrous heaviness. The project delivers some of the most crushingly slow and heavy music in the British underground.
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