The inscription by Artaxerxes on his addition of the western staircase to Darius' Tachara reads; A great god is Ahuramazda, who created this earth, who created yonder heaven, who created happiness for man, who made Artaxerxes king. One king for many, one leader of many. The great king Artaxerxes, the king of kings, the king of countries, the king of this earth, says: I am the son of king Artaxerxes [II Mnemon]. Artaxerxes was the son of king Darius [II Nothus]. Darius was the son of king Artaxerxes [I]. Artaxerxes was the son king Xerxes. Xerxes was the son of king Darius [the Great]. Darius was the son of a man named Hystaspes. Hystaspes was a son of a man named Arsames, the Achaemenid. Arsames is an Ancient melodic death metal band from Iran, Arsames was formed in 2002 by Ali madarshahi ( frontman and first Drummer) in Mashhad one of the largest City of Iran The former members started to create their songs and playing them in their rehearsal room at the same time , the result was Songs : 1-Homo sapiens 2-Cyrus The Great 3- Immortal Identity 4-Adipocere 5- Cyclopia (instrumental) 6-Exile , Metal music is banned in Iran so they couldn't release their songs they decided to make an official web site to promote the band in Internet and follow that the MySpace website in 2006 , they recorded all the tracks in a Home studio and put some of them in their MySpace and start to promote ... the feed back was great so many fans joined their MySpace to see how death metal sounds in Pesia, the fans added bunch of comments and good vibes to their MySpace and some magazines around the world ask them for Interview at that time , so they found a good energy for continuing in 2008 Metalcamp festival invited underground bands to joined a competition and between thousands of bands Arsames won to play in Metalcamp ... in 2009 an international 3days Unirock festival in turkey invited them to play in Istanbul, Turkey along with famous acts like: Amon Amarth , Arch enemy , Kreator ...and the last day of the fest they opened the stage for Amon Amarth and Arsames done an interview with metalhammer that night and it published in metalhammer magazine in 2009 , they also played in Dorock bar in Istanbul, Turkey few days later after they came back to Iran huge number of Turkish fans joined Arsames websites . in 2010 they invited to be the headliner and played in Metal asylum in Dubai in 2010 The band Decide to re record the first album with better quality an add some new tracks, now they have 9 studio tracks and It will be released worldwide in Nov 2010 Also the invited to be the headliner of a huge metal festival in India Sikkim metal fest in Nov 2010.

Source: http://www.myspace.com/arsamesmetal