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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Anheim is a five-piece black metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, featuring Andergrout on vocals, Bleklys and Nefaros on guitars, Raspad on bass, and Narhammer on drums. Their catalog spans from the 2021 debut Maere einer alten Zeit through Anihorim to the 2025 release Die Welt Die Wir Begruben, blending haunting melodies and intense riffs with epic narrative themes.
Anholt practices black metal from Omsk in western Siberia since 2014. Named after a Danish island, their Scandinavian reference adds a North Sea dimension to their decade of Siberian black metal.
New York City black metal stalwarts with six releases since 2012. Their catalog — including splits with Forest of Tygers and the full-length Exegeses — establishes them as one of the key voices in NYC's thriving black metal underground, blending urban intensity with atmospheric depth.
Anihilar is a raw black metal project emerging from Catalonia in 2024, stripped to its most primal and lo-fi essence. The project embraces the genre's most uncompromising aesthetic, rejecting polish in favor of pure sonic hostility.
Aniima fuses black and death metal from the university city of Poitiers since 2024, their double-i name suggesting a doubled soul or split identity. Their approach brings extreme metal to one of central-western France's historic cities.
Anima Damnata has practiced brutal death and black metal from Wrocław since 1990, over three decades of extremity that makes them one of Poland's pioneering extreme metal acts. Their Latin name meaning 'damned soul' has guided a career of relentless spiritual punishment.
Athens' Animal Man Machine explore the boundaries of black metal through a conceptual lens examining the relationship between the bestial, the human, and the mechanical. Since 2020, this project has pushed the genre into uncomfortable philosophical territory.
Boulder Creek black metal project from the California underground.
Animi Vultus blends black metal with ambient from Saint Petersburg before relocating to Melbourne, Australia, active since 2002. Their Latin name meaning 'expressions of the soul' has guided over two decades of transcontinental atmospheric black metal.
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