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Bursting out of Western Sydney, Australia, The Black Arts Movement are here to change your perception of modern metal. With genres and stereotypes being the new black, T.B.A.M throws this on its head, baring a title and profile that polarises its audience; the willing from the complacent: Black Arts? Think a little further. The Black Arts Movement is about the progression of metal from socially outcast stereotype to a credible form of music that is both accessible yet abrasive and confronting. It’s about aggressive music being a tangible medium that can churn a crowd into frenzy yet on another face provide contemplative thought and emotion. The Black Arts Movement formed in early 2004 after the demise of previous incarnation Baraka which had been playing with local and interstate bands since 1998. T.B.A.M grew out of an idea to push peoples perceptions of what extreme metal is by combining influences ranging from folk music to brutal death metal, to create something that could seem