Please answer the following question: James Byrd is a guitarist from Kirkland WA who came to prominence in the metal scene in the mid-1980s with the band Fifth Angel considered a pioneer of the early Power Metal movement. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Artist