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ManiaCult (2021)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
The Seed of Singularity (2024)
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All Hell's Breaking Loose Down at Little Kathy Wilson's Place - Remastered (2025)
05/24 @ The Waterloo Music Bar, Blackpool
Featured Black Metal Album
Death Doom Punks (2026)
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Artch played heavy and power metal from Sarpsborg in Østfold, originally active in the 1980s and reformed in 2017. Their resurrection brings classic NWOBHM-influenced metal back to the southeastern Norwegian scene where they first emerged.
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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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.
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.
Arterian channels melodic black metal from Veliky Novgorod since 2018. Their circulatory-system name drives compositions of melodic intensity that pulse through the ancient streets of this medieval Russian city.
Artery thrashes from Geneva since 2009, nearly two decades of activity from the international city on Lake Léman. Their anatomical name drives a sound that pumps adrenaline through thrash metal's circulatory system.
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.
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