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Stoner rock band from Joinville, Santa Catarina, formed in 2015 with a lineup of Fernando Schmitz (vocals), Angelo Bracht (guitar), Gustavo Hansen (bass), and Tutu (drums). The band contributed the track "The Arataca Witch" to the Hard'n Slow Brazilian Vol.1 compilation in 2016 and released Tales From Arataca – Chapt. 3 in 2017, the third installment in their ongoing Tales From Arataca series.
The Arbiter is a death/doom metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2013. They merge the crushing weight of doom metal with death metal's aggression, creating slow-burning, oppressive heaviness.
The Arcane Legacy bring symphonic metal grandeur from the small Czech city of Dvůr Králové nad Labem, layering orchestral arrangements and soaring melodies over a heavy metal foundation since 2017. Their ambitious compositions draw on the epic, cinematic tradition of European symphonic metal.
Founded in Denmark in 2000 by guitarist Flemming C. Lund, initially as Scavenger before signing to Metal Blade Records and adopting their current name in 2005, The Arcane Order draw members from Soilwork, Møl, Hatesphere, and Invocator to craft an expansive form of melodic extreme metal. Their Metal Blade releases The Machinery of Oblivion (2006) and In the Wake of Collisions (2008) established a sound blending melodic death metal sweep with thrash aggression and progressive ambition. The band returned in 2023 with Distortions from Cosmogony on Black Lion Records, their most technically elaborate work to date.
The Architect of Nightmares is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, formed in 2014. The band released their debut full-length, Consummating Divinity, in 2017, followed by the single Circles of Ordeals in 2020.
The Argent Dawn from Swindon deliver deathcore named after the Warcraft faction of undead-hunters since 2010. Over fifteen years of gaming-inspired breakdowns from the Wiltshire town has produced compositions as crushing as a raid boss encounter.
Dallas' The Argonaut have been charting their own course through avant-garde progressive death metal since 2007, building music that sprawls and coils with the relentless ambition their name implies — searching, dissonant, and structurally bold in ways that distinguish them from the more straightforward corners of the Texas metal underground. Their sound treats the death metal template as a starting point rather than a destination.
The Arisen from Lyon deliver progressive death metal with the resurrection energy their name demands since 2017. Their compositions channel the rising-from-the-dead concept through technically ambitious arrangements from France's gastronomic capital.
Pennsylvania's The Arkane traffic in black metal with a sense of occult mysticism embedded in the project's name and approach, offering the genre's characteristic darkness without unnecessary embellishment. Active since 2012, they operate within the tradition of American black metal that draws from European roots while finding its own cold, atmospheric identity.
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