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| | BNR Metal Pages -- Arcturus (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Featuring (at various times) members from bands such as Mayhem, Ulver, Emperor, and Dimmu Borgir, it's no wonder that Arcturus was once tabbed a fl metal supergroup, though their recordings suggested they were far more than that. |
 | | Aspera Hiems Symfonia, their 1996 debut full-length album, is still regarded as a classic symphonic fl metal album, but it's the followup, La Masquerade Infernale, a truly unique, progressive, avant-garde art metal affair, that defined what this band was all about. |
 | | Their final two albums (not including the remix album Disguised Masters), combined the experimentalism of Masquerade with a more traditional symphonic fl metal base, yet these albums, too, showed that the band was quite willing to take chances. |
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