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Artefact delivers melodic black metal from the Côte d'Azur city of Nice since 2020, bringing extreme music to the Mediterranean riviera. Their name suggests crafted, intentional compositions that balance melody with black metal's raw intensity.
Artefacto Impío combines death metal's brutality with progressive metal's structural ambition from Valencia since 2015. Their name, meaning "unholy artifact," signals a band intent on crafting extreme music with compositional depth beyond the genre's typical boundaries.
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Citrus Heights, California black metal band whose deliberately provocative name matches their raw, uncompromising approach to extreme music from Sacramento's suburban fringes.
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.
Cleveland stoner metal act riding fuzzy, groove-laden riffs through the Rust Belt, adding to Northeast Ohio's versatile heavy music scene with laid-back, smoke-heavy jams.
Columbus, Ohio death metal act whose 2013 EP Draining Your Life delivers exactly the sanguine extremity the title promises. Medical horror meets death metal from the state capital.
Arterial Pressure has been pumping thrash metal through Zaragoza's veins since 2005, making them one of the longer-running thrash acts in the Aragonese capital. Two decades of consistent output speak to their deep dedication to the genre.
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