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Angurvadel conjures black metal from Åmot in Hedmark since 2024, named after a mythic Norse sword whose blade glowed in times of war. From the forested interior of eastern Norway, they forge black metal with legendary weaponry at its core.
Angústia are a black metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, formed in 2002, whose lyrical stance is explicitly anti-Nazi and anti-fascist — an ideological position unusual within the often apolitical Swiss underground. The band's status has since become uncertain, leaving them as a document of politicized Swiss second-wave black metal.
Angústia was a blackgaze project from Lavras, Minas Gerais, Brazil, blending raw black metal with shoegaze textures — a combination of abrasive tremolo-picked riffs and dreamy, washed-out atmospherics. The project was active from 2009 and split up after a limited run of underground releases.
Anhaguama is a death/black metal band from Arujá, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2019 and operating in the underground extreme metal scene of greater São Paulo. Their music draws from the aggressive intersection of death and black metal, a tradition with deep roots in Brazil's extreme metal history.
Anhedonia is a black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, signed to the American extreme metal label Maggot Stomp. Their debut album "Impudent Dominance," released in January 2026, delivers eight tracks of brutal, groove-inflected extreme metal, and sold out its limited vinyl pressing shortly after release.
Anhedonia Nocturne creates depressive black metal from Kyiv since 2024. Named after the inability to feel pleasure combined with darkness, they craft compositions of nocturnal emotional numbness from the Ukrainian capital.
Anhedonia Schizophrenica Nevrosa channels black metal, death metal, deathcore, and depressive black metal from Paris since 2022. Their clinical-psychiatric name, spanning three disorders, signals a project deeply immersed in the psychology of suffering.
Anhedoniac is a German atmospheric black metal project whose 2022 debut album Colossus, released through Entropy and Heresy Productions, delivers four tracks of black metal recorded in 2021 with Audio Non Verba handling production. The album's compositions range from five to eight minutes, building an atmosphere of bleakness through tracks like Harbinger and The Dissolution.
Okmulgee black metal project from the Oklahoma underground.
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