Art of Murder delivers death metal and grindcore from Oskarshamn in Småland since 2015. From this Baltic coast town — home to one of Sweden's nuclear power plants — they channel decade of lethal extremity.

Art of Silence creates melodic death, power, and thrash metal from Milan since 2009. Their paradoxical name — art crafted from the absence of sound — contrasts with the multi-genre metallic assault they deliver from Lombardy.

Art of Sin creates blackened death metal from Roskilde as of 2026, a brand-new project from the city best known for its Viking ship museum and rock festival. Their sinister name drives extreme metal that pairs black metal's tonal hostility with death metal's technical demands.

Artas has delivered melodic death and thrash metal with metalcore influences from Vienna since 2008. Over nearly two decades in the Austrian capital, they have built a reputation for aggressive yet accessible compositions that bridge Scandinavian melodeath with modern metalcore.

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.

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.

Artgore crafts melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore from Kharkiv since 2023. From Ukraine's embattled second city, they channel artistic violence through melodically refined compositions.

Founded in Písek in 2014 as a death metal band, Arthemion shifted toward symphonic gothic/death metal after vocalist Neira joined in 2016, adding clean vocals alongside growling and broadening the band's orchestral palette. Their 2020 debut album Inner contains six tracks and reflects the band's evolution, with over 60 concerts played in the years following its release.

Arthropodal Humanicide delivers punishing brutal death metal from Albacete, one of La Mancha's most unlikely metal strongholds, since 2016. Their insect-themed violence brings a distinctly clinical brutality to the Castilian extreme metal underground.