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Featured Album
Vault Of Horrors (2024)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Liars & Thieves (2024)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/11 @ Rebellion Manchester, Manchester
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Sonic German Beatdown (Live in Germany) (2009)
06/11 @ The Grand At The Complex, Salt Lake City
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Minneapolis funeral doom project from the Minnesota underground.
Springfield deathcore project from the Massachusetts underground.
An-Al Gore merges grindcore with death and black metal from Brescia since 2013, their provocatively named project bringing chaotic extremity to the Lombard industrial city. Their multi-genre approach throws stylistic convention into the blender with gleeful abandon.
An8ther crafts atmospheric post-metal from Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo Region since 2013. Their numerically augmented name — 'another' with an 8 — drives over a decade of atmospheric compositions from the Kuznetsk coal basin.
An[om]aly delivers brutal death metal from Paris since 2014, their creatively punctuated name signaling a band that approaches the genre with unconventional flair. Their sound brings technical precision to the French capital's extreme metal landscape.
Redlands black metal project from the California underground.
Ana Argan List creates post-black metal from Stockholm since 2020. Their cryptic three-word name resists easy interpretation, driving atmospheric compositions from the Swedish capital that prize mystery over clarity.
Ana Blanché creates symphonic metal from Barcelona since 2012, built around the artistic vision of its namesake vocalist. Over a decade in Catalonia's creative capital, the project has developed a distinctive blend of orchestral grandeur and metal power.
Anaal Nathrakh is one of the UK's most extreme and critically acclaimed bands, fusing black metal, grindcore, and industrial metal into a horrific concoction from Birmingham. Named after Merlin's Charm of Making in Excalibur, the duo of Mick Kenney and Dave Hunt have created eleven studio albums of unrelenting sonic violence that stands among the most intense music ever recorded.
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