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Anesmwythder channels depressive black metal from Wales since 2014, their Welsh-language name meaning "restlessness" or "anxiety" connecting their DSBM to Wales's Celtic linguistic heritage. Over a decade of Welsh-language extreme metal reflects deep cultural commitment.
Anew creates symphonic black metal from an undisclosed Portuguese location since 2017. Their brief, renewal-focused name brings a transformative energy to the orchestrally enhanced black metal they craft.
Oklahoma black metal project shrouded in deliberate obscurity. Minimal information and a single untitled release — black metal reduced to its most essential and enigmatic form.
Newtown black metal project from the Connecticut underground.
Taking their name from the ash plain of Tolkien's Silmarillion, Vienna's Anfauglith deal in raw, mythologically charged black metal steeped in a Northern European aesthetic. Their releases are austere and uncompromising, favouring abrasive production and tremolo-driven passages that evoke desolate, pre-Christian landscapes.
Anfauglith is a folk/pagan black metal band from Olinda, Pernambuco, whose name is drawn from J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion — the Sindarin word for "Suffocating Dust" referencing the burning of the plain of Ard-Galen. Formed in 2010, the band draws on Moonsorrow and Thyrfing for their atmospheric framework while weaving in Nordic mythology and medieval paganism, releasing their EP "The Devastation in Ard-Galen" in 2019.
Angainor practices black metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2023. Named after the chain that bound the wolf Fenrir in Norse mythology, they forge compositions of constraining darkness.
Angantyr is a black metal project from Copenhagen, Denmark, active since 2000, named after the legendary Norse berserker king, with an extensive Danish-language discography including Kampen Fortsaetter, Sejr, Haevn, Svig, Forvist, Foragt, Ulykke, and Indsigt. The project's quarter-century history and prolific output have established it as one of the pillars of the Danish black metal scene.
Angath crafts industrial gothic and black metal, originally from Sweden before relocating to Freiburg im Breisgau in Germany, active from 2025. Their transnational journey drives compositions that merge industrial atmosphere with gothic and black metal darkness.
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