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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Athens, Georgia power metal project with six releases since 2012, including the numbered series culminating in IV: The Grey. The sci-fi themed Droid Works EP and military-artistic name blend creative and martial imagery from the Classic City.
Intricate Progressive Heavy Metal from San Antonio, Texas (early); Philadephia, Pennsylvania (mid); Los Angeles, California (later).
Artless is a melodic death metal band from Reichenbach im Vogtland in Saxony, Germany, active since 2001, representing over two decades of commitment to the genre from the rural Vogtland region near the Czech border. The band brings Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal to one of eastern Germany's more remote metal communities.
Artless was a thrash metal band from Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro, active in the early 2000s before splitting up. Based in the mountain city roughly 70 km from Rio de Janeiro, the band operated within Brazil's underground thrash scene during a period when the genre was experiencing a renewed wave of activity in the country.
Artmania merges progressive and gothic metal from Saint Petersburg since 2022. Their mania-for-art name drives compositions that pursue creative obsession from the city of the Hermitage Museum.
Arto Tissari explores groove and progressive metal from Tampere since 2023, bringing a solo artist's vision to the intersection of rhythmic heaviness and technical complexity. The project showcases the individual creativity thriving within Finland's metal community.
Riverside, California death metal project named after the Dark Souls character, bringing video game-inspired darkness to the Inland Empire's underground with crushing heaviness.
California folk metal wanderer blending pagan themes with metallic heft, exploring mythological territory through a distinctly West Coast lens.
Artotsa channels black metal from the French underground since 2019, their enigmatic Basque-flavored name hinting at pre-Christian cultural roots. The project maintains the obscurity that defines the genre's most underground practitioners.
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