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Artist
Archaios
12+ albums
Melodic Death Metaldeath metalmetaldominican republicmelodic
about
Archaios is a Death Metal band from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic that miraculously has managed to survive almost two decades of several line up changes, periods of personal and public turmoil, lack of support from record labels, poor management, or a worldwide fan base. All this while living in one of the most ultra-conservative Third World societies of the world. Since its inception in the Dominican underground scene in 1994, the band has enjoyed favorable popularity among other bands and fans of extreme music. However, their country’s predominant right-wing media has never paid serious attention to Archaios beyond the casual mention of the band as a “musical oddity” or to use it as target for censorship campaigns against Metal Music. In spite of this, the group has become one of the most important musical entities of the scene, giving fans dramatic and unforgettable stage performances at live events. Due to constant member changes in the past, economic constrains and poor logistic support, Archaios has only released some demos and their album debut "Out of the Shadows" (2006). Although locally this recording was warmly received, the lack of support from a proper record label denied the band the posibilty of making an impact in the international Metal community. However, things are about to change for the current and most solid line up of Archaios, which just finished the recording of its second full length, titled "The Distant". The recording began in 2009 as a self
