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Spire

1) Spire - An Experimental Black Metal band from Brisbane, Australia. ---------------- 2) Jake Perrine (aka Spire) is a composer / producer / dj / performance artist currently resding in seattle washington. He performs dj / live laptop sets, as well as incorporating other media such as theatre, dance, voice and video. As well, Jake is a producer, remixer, masting engineer working with talented musicians to raise the bar on musicality, audio quality and sonic design.

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Arcturus

Arcturus is an band from Oslo, Norway featuring many prominent members of the Norwegian black metal scene from bands such as Ulver, Dimmu Borgir, Mayhem, Borknagar, The Kovenant, Emperor, and Winds. Arcturus have experimented throughout their career, extracting influences and incorporating elements from all over the musical spectrum including black metal and classical music, but the core of their sound has always been metal.

Read more about Arcturus on Last.fm.

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Aloeswood

Aloeswood is the solo project of Daniel Downing (Ravenage, Windrider). Formed in 2010, the project has a new EP entitled 'Forsaken Landscapes' available for free download here: http://www.mediafire.com/?0jtg2al6j8223
The genre is mainly Post-Black Metal/Shoegaze. The songs 'Began to Become', 'Left And Gone And Left' and 'Snow Song' are from a different artist named 'Aloeswood'. Not the post-black metal project above.

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Wolves In the Throne Room

During the Summer of 2002 at an Earth First rendezvous in the Cascade Mountains of Washington State, guitarist Nathan Weaver was inspired to create a band that merged a Cascadian eco-spiritual awareness with the misanthropic Norwegian eruptions of the 90's. The band envisioned would strive to create a mythic space where artist and listener alike could strip away the mindset of the mundane to reveal a more ancient and transcendent consciousness. The mysterious and wild energies of the untrammeled forests of the Northwest would be channeled into sonic form.

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Solefald

Solefald is a metal band from Norway that was formed by members Lars Are "Lazare" Nedland and Cornelius Jakhelln in August 1995, with Lars singing and playing keyboard/synthesizer/piano and drums, and Cornelius singing and playing guitar and bass. The meaning of the band's name is best explained in an interview from Century Media Records website. Lazare states "Solefald is an old norse word for sunset. We "stole" it from a painting by the Norwegian artist Theodor Kittelsen.

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Tyrants

There are two bands using the name Tyrants: 1)An Austrian Black Metal Band and 2)An art-punk band from Portland, Oregon. 1)Tyrants are a black metal band from the deepest Alps of Austria. Tyrants was born in the cold December off 2003 by F.P. and Gruol. Since that day it has lived in the minds of its creators and grew to be unleashed soon. In September 2004 the horde was joined by Ördögvér on guitars and Evil on drums to march into live battles. Some bassists have been rehearsed too but they had to be removed because of their not shown discipline and/or motivation.

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Apotheosis

There are five bands using this name: 1) A / one man band from Malta. Sauron composes all of the music for Apotheosis. Although the band was formed in autumn of 1993, it wasn't until 2002 that Sauron released a full length, the four track epic Farthest From The Sun. 2) A two piece band from Toledo, Ohio. Their first album, 'Husk', was self-released in 2011 and they are currently (9/12) completing their second release, 'Bane'.

Read more about Apotheosis on Last.fm.

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Moonsorrow

Moonsorrow is a band formed in Helsinki, Finland, in 1995. Musically, the band incorporates elements of and in their sound. The band call their sound "" and try to distance themselves from the term "". The group's earliest formation consisted of cousins Ville Sorvali (vocals and bass) and Henri Sorvali (guitar and keyboards; also keyboards for Finntroll, Barathrum, and session member of Ensiferum) who released various demos that were much more characteristic of than future releases.

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