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Angis has transitioned from doom and death metal into pagan black metal from Kaunas since 2017. Their Lithuanian name meaning 'snake' threads through compositions that have shed their skin to reveal new stylistic forms.
Angist has delivered death metal from Reykjavík since 2010, bringing a more directly brutal approach to Iceland's extreme metal community. Their Icelandic name means 'anguish,' and their sound delivers on that promise with unrelenting ferocity.
Angles Morts creates death metal from Rotterdam as of 2025. Their French name meaning 'blind spots' or 'dead angles' drives music that attacks from unexpected directions in the Dutch port city's underground.
Northern New Jersey death metal project.
Houston death metal project from the Texas underground.
Angron delivers death metal from Brighton since 2018, named after the Warhammer 40,000 Primarch of the World Eaters. Their gaming-universe inspiration feeds compositions as savage as their berserker namesake.
Angry Nation are a melodic thrash/death metal band from Wiener Neustadt built around guitarist Walter Oberhofer, with contributions from members of Darkside and Wolfheart. Their albums The Fail Decade and Embracing the Collapse channel the socio-political anxiety of the 2010s into tightly constructed riffing that bridges late-80s Bay Area thrash with melodic Scandinavian death metal.
Anguish Sublime creates melodic death metal from Novi Sad, the cultural capital of Vojvodina, since 2014. Their oxymoronic name — beautiful suffering — drives compositions that find melodic beauty within aggression from Serbia's second city.
Toledo, Ohio death metal project named after the inability to feel pleasure — fitting for music this relentlessly punishing. Eight releases since 2019 demonstrate a prolific commitment to extremity, with Abandon Lust and Ash Wednesday anchoring a substantial catalog from the Glass City.
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