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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Antares is an ambient black metal project from Bavaria, Germany, formed in 2020, merging the atmospheric expansiveness of ambient music with the rawness of black metal. Named after one of the brightest stars in the night sky, the project channels cosmic vastness through its sound.
Black metal project that migrated from Granite Falls, North Carolina to San Francisco. Two albums in quick succession — Reflection and The Ghost Town — channel the displacement of cross-country relocation into atmospheric black metal, the Sumerian deity name adding ancient weight.
Anu Eridu channels blackened melodic death metal from Rzeszów since 2020. Named after the Sumerian sky god and the world's oldest city, they bring ancient Mesopotamian weight to their Subcarpathian extreme metal.
Anubis is a Brazilian black metal band formed in 2009, named after the Egyptian deity of death and the afterlife — a common touchstone for black metal's preoccupation with mortality and the occult. Operating within Brazil's deeply rooted extreme metal underground, the band has remained active since formation and releases music independently through Bandcamp. Their sound follows the raw, atmospheric tradition of black metal that has long thrived in Brazil's underground scene.
Black metal and grindcore band from Manaus, Amazonas, active from 2016 until their dissolution. Operating out of the Amazon region — an unconventional home for extreme metal — they blended the blastbeat intensity of grindcore with the rawness of black metal. The band documented their output on Bandcamp and maintained a presence in Brazil's underground extreme metal network.
Anus Mundi channels black metal from Paris since 2017, named after the notorious term used to describe Auschwitz. Their historically weighted name and extreme music confront the darkest chapters of human history.
Anweld practices black metal from Oława in Lower Silesia since 2020. Their Old English-derived name adds Anglo-Saxon linguistic heritage to their Polish black metal from this small town south of Wrocław.
Anxieta is a black metal project emerging from the small Breton fishing village of Treffiagat in 2026, representing the very newest generation of extreme music from France's Atlantic coast. Their anxiety-themed name captures the unsettled energy of a project just beginning to take shape.
Anxiety Disorder channels black metal from Vadu Crișului in the Bihor region near the Hungarian border since 2012. Their psychiatric-diagnosis name drives over a decade of agitated extremity from this small spa town in the Crișana.
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