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Artour crafts depressive and post-black metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2023. Their name, possibly a variant of 'Arthur,' adds personal intimacy to the emotional rawness of their DSBM.
Artrach is a heavy/power/progressive metal band from Kortrijk, Belgium, formed in 2000 by veteran musicians active in the broader Belgian metal scene. The band occupies a melodic and technically ambitious corner of Belgian metal with connections to the Kortrijk music community that also produced acts like Dyscordia.
New York black metal project with seven releases since 2015. Their catalog — including a Best Of compilation and ongoing EPs — reveals a band treating black metal as an evolving artistic practice, the simple name stripping away pretension.
Arturius crafts symphonic progressive metal from Gothenburg since 1994. Over three decades from Sweden's second city, this Arthurian-named project has produced one of the country's longest-running progressive metal legacies.
Louisville, Kentucky groove metal project with two releases since 2017. The paradoxical name — art for those who cannot see it — captures an existential irony that matches their heavy, searching sound from the city that gave us Slint.
Artwork of Hate creates melodic death metal with deathcore elements from Klæbu near Trondheim since 2015. Their creative-violence name suggests brutality elevated to an art form through melodic sophistication.
Artyfiction crafts progressive metal and rock from Wrocław since 2018. Their portmanteau of 'art' and 'fiction' signals a creative vision that embraces narrative imagination within Lower Silesia's progressive music scene.
Art Est is a technical death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2020, whose releases include A Demon's Mind, Salvage the Earth, A Helix of Sirens, and the single Evil Embodiment. The band delivers the genre's demanding combination of extreme speed, complex rhythmic structures, and death metal ferocity from one of Saxony's cultural capitals.
Philadelphia grindcore act whose 2020 debut Fountainous Exsanguination pairs a diacritical-marked name with a title describing explosive bloodletting. Linguistically ornate grindcore from the City of Brotherly Love.
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