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Anebulah is a one-man black metal project from San José, Costa Rica, formed by Santiago Umaña in 2020. The project has released a steady stream of material including "The Renaissance of Triumphant" (2023) and "Sacrophobia" (2024), the latter issued through Depressive Illusions Records in a limited run of 66 copies. The music adheres to a traditional raw black metal aesthetic rooted in themes of darkness and spiritual disdain.
Anemic Death channels black metal from Oulu as of 2025, their name evoking a weakened, bloodless form of mortality. From the subarctic Finnish city, they bring a pallid, ice-cold vision of black metal.
McNabb, Illinois black metal project named after the feeling of nostalgia for a time you never experienced. Their two albums — memories you never had and autumn rains — deliver atmospheric, melancholic black metal from rural Illinois, the lowercase titles reflecting a deliberately understated aesthetic.
Anemye crafts atmospheric and post-black metal from Veliky Novgorod since 2022. Their name, suggesting anemia or weakness, brings a pallid fragility to atmospheric compositions from one of Russia's oldest cities.
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.
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