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San Bernardino thrash band ripping through the Inland Empire with aggressive speed metal, carrying on Southern California's rich thrash tradition from the region's working-class heartland.
Arsênio is a thrash metal band from Foz do Iguaçu, Paraná, formed in 2012 in the tri-border city where Brazil meets Argentina and Paraguay. The band carries the aggressive, old-school thrash tradition of the Brazilian underground.
ART 238 merges death metal, grindcore, and industrial metal from the Norman port of Cherbourg since 2002, creating a mechanized extremity from the Cotentin Peninsula. Over two decades of genre-fusing activity make them one of Normandy's most enduring experimental metal acts.
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 Noir has been channeling black metal from Paris since 1996, making them one of the French capital's longest-running black metal projects. Nearly three decades of activity connect them to the formative era of the French black metal scene.
Art of Anarchy is an American hard rock supergroup formed in 2011, built around brothers Jon and Vince Votta and featuring high-profile rotating vocalists. Their self-titled debut (2015) prominently featured late Stone Temple Pilots vocalist Scott Weiland, though the nature of his involvement was publicly disputed; Scott Stapp of Creed replaced him for the band's second album in 2017. Later lineups brought in Jeff Scott Soto (Sons of Apollo, ex-Journey), alongside guitarist Ron Thal (Bumblefoot, ex-Guns N' Roses) and bassist John Moyer (Disturbed).
Art of Burning Water has been delivering sludge metal from London since 2003, making them one of the English capital's most enduring heavy acts. Over two decades of crushing compositions speak to extraordinary persistence in the London underground.
Sacramento thrash outfit delivering controlled fury from California's capital, adding to NorCal's deep pool of aggressive metal with tight, riff-driven compositions.
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