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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
06/11 @ Rebellion Manchester, Manchester
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Anactoria pursues progressive thrash metal from La Spezia, the Ligurian naval port city, since 2018. Named after the ancient Greek poetess who inspired Sappho, they bring literary depth and structural ambition to thrash metal's aggressive foundation.
Anadora creates folk metal from Moscow since 2015. Their name, evoking adoration with a mythological twist, drives a decade of folk-tinged compositions from the Russian capital.
Anaestesia has played melodic thrash metal from Aprilia in the Latina province since 2013, their numbing name suggesting the anesthetic quality of high-speed riffing. From this postwar planned city in the Pontine Marshes, they deliver Lazio-forged thrash with melodic precision.
Anagneia channels raw black metal from the Basque-Atlantic town of Anglet since 2025, bringing lo-fi hostility to the French Basque Country's underground. Their arrival represents the newest wave of extreme music from France's southwestern border.
Louisville black/death metal outfit active since 2007, named after the Greek dramatic term for a moment of critical recognition. Four releases spanning nearly two decades trace an evolution from raw extremity to more nuanced compositions, with Petrified Feathers and Overton Trees bookending their creative arc.
Anagram to Anna crafts symphonic gothic and doom metal from Horlivka in the Donetsk Region since 2013. From this war-affected city, their personal, puzzle-like name drives compositions of darkly romantic complexity.
Self-described purveyors of "Metal Chungo," Anajulia was a Valladolid deathcore outfit that based their lyrics on Spain's most infamous criminal cases and true crime stories. Across releases like "Crónica Negra, Vol. 1" and "Cinco Días De Cacería," they married brutal breakdowns with tabloid-shocking subject matter from 2019 to 2023.
New York groove metal project from the New York underground.
Anakeion merges atmospheric black metal, doom metal, and symphonic metal from the French underground since 2013, creating a multi-genre fusion of vast scope. Their Greek name, referencing an ancient Athenian temple, adds classical gravitas to their sweeping compositions.
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