Arthimoth

In 1998 Ali Azhari left his own town "Mashhad" to study at tehran film school and find metal head friends to start a band with them.he was born in a religious city of iran and started playing guitar at the age of 15 under supervision of Mansour Rasa.no music sheets and no guitar methods where available at that time.it was a few years after war between IRAN and IRAQ and talkin' about music seemed so funny at the time.Ali started playin' covers from pantera,metallica,annihilator,slayer and other thrash metal bands with some of his highschool friends untill it was time for him to left mashad for capital city of iran"Tehran".

In 1998 he joined a band called "scourge" with Alireza Saidian on guitar,Soroush Khalili on bass and Sina Jazayeri on drums and they started covering bands like death,unleashed,cannibal corpse and morbid angel.within two years Sina replaced by Aidin Radkia and Soroush replaced by Anthony Artounian.since 2003 they played more than 40 covers and 6 original songs and little practice room became thair concert hall for fans and friends to come and see them live.in 2003 members of scourge started nagin' on each other and complexes between band members lead to disbanding of Scourge but before they leave the band Ali asked them to take part in a video for one of his songs called "baptized"and ali directed the video himself.Ali just wanted to create his own material and he found a new name for his band "Arthimoth".he also played with other bands like kahtmayan,sefir e arsh and SDS.ARTHIMOTH recorded the first EP "FIRE MAGNET" with ali azhari on guitar and vocals,Ardavan Anzabipour on bass and a drum machine!

in 2006 Ali Sanai joind arthimoth as bass player and Jano Baghoumian as drummer and they recorded the album"Recital of the Dagger".this album is what arthimoth is about.a crossroad between persian folk music and extream metal.in march 2006 arthimoth apeard on a documentary"the global metal" directed by Sam Dunn.another documentary made by norvegian director Gard anderiason about Arthimoth.today Arthimoth is one of the main(and of course few)metal bands in iran.we have the courage to record our music and play it live and nothing can stop us in our way.dispite all the problems and difficultyes for a rock'n'roll band in iran we do beleive in our music and its all about metal in our hearts.