There are at least 4 groups that use this name.

Javelin is a hip-hop and electro production duo from Providence, RI.
Tracks can be downloaded from their official Myspace page, http://www.myspace.com/hotjamzofjavelin.

Javelin was a visual kei band from Japan.
Alternate listings on last.fm are ??????? and ?????

Javelin is a metal band from Germany.
http://www.myspace.com/javelinmetal

Javelin is a stoner/doom metal band from Boston, MA.
http://www.myspace.com/javelinboston

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There are at least ten artists with this name:

1) A Hungarian Black Metal band. This band described their own music style in the album Deathgate as True Carpathian Black Metal. The first release was 'Fight Of The Soul' in 1995. Lyrical themes are dealing with misanthropy, hatred, depths of human soul and satanism. Dusk dissociate the band from the clownish / funny / trendy hungarian "Black" Metal scene with the TCBM Circle (True Carpathian Black Metal circle). For more information, check: http://dusk666.webs.com/

Releases:

1995 - Fight Of The Soul 'demo
1998 - Recognizing Ourselves 'demo (unreleased)
2001 - Scream Of The Soul 'demo
2003 - The Shadowsoul
2005 - The Darksoul's Scream
2005 - Carpathian Darkness
2006 - Beginning (compilation with first 2 demos)
2006 - Deathgate
2007 - Pray For Death
2009 - In Eternal Death
2011 - Book Of Satan

2) An inactive, american death/doom metal band. The band released one demo, one E.P. and one full-lenght album. Both, the EP and the Full-length were released as an compilation album by Lost Disciple Records, title "Mourning...Resurrect". Their full-length album "...Majestic Thou in Ruin" is a classic of it's genre, even though Dusk could never reach a big audience. Some of the members formed Aphotic after the split-up of Dusk, but they suffered the same dilemma and split-up after the release of a couple EP's. Last release was a split album between the two bands, recorded in 2005 "To Find New Darkness / The Slumber"

MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/duskofficial

3) A french alternative/progressive rock band. They have not yet released any album or EP, and the only available material is their old instrumental demos on their Myspace page. This english-singing band is influenced by the song structures and the sound of Muse, the singing of Foo Fighters, the brutal energy of Deftones and the melodic parts of Mogwai.

You can check their MySpace page at http://myspace.com/dusklive

4) A french surf-rock band.

5) A Pakistani death/progressive metal band. Credited as originators of the entire metal scene in Pakistan. The band consisted of Faraz Anwar and Babar Sheikh. Faraz Anwar is an extremely talented guitarist, winner of a Berklee scholarship and appreciated by people like Steve Vai and Joe Satriani. Recently their sound has changed to a death/thrash style they call "Third World ThunderThrash" with a singapore based line up.

6) A hardcore band from New York state known for their fast music and abrupt tempo changes similar to Converge, Ceremony, Infest, Orchid, etc

7) A studio pop creation of the early 70's, made as a female-fronted answer to Dawn (made with the same producers/musicians). Lead vocals were by Peggy Santaglia, former lead singer of The Angels. Singles included "I Hear Those Church Bells Ringing" and "Angel Baby".

8) A Malaysian underground Power/Death Metal band.

9) An Australian four piece acoustic based band who play roots grooves, Dusk are from Fremantle, Western Australia. They're debut ep entitled 'The Fragile Escape/Butterflies EP' will be released in March 2006.

10) A Belgian metal band that released three demos over the course of 10 years and split up in 2007.

11) An Italian Band which realeased one record so far: Nemo Ante Mortem Beastus. They play Dark Metal.

12) A Dutch rockband, with famous philosopher Ad Verbrugge as lead-singer.

13) A Japanese band.

14) Canadian Singer-Songwriter. Plays Nirvanas legendary unplugged concert every year in April since 2002.

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