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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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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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Anakhoret channels blackened melodic death metal from an undisclosed Russian location since 2001. Named after the Greek word for 'anchorite' — a religious hermit — over two decades of reclusive creativity have produced a body of melodically sophisticated extremity.
Tucson sludge metal duo conjuring apocalyptic heaviness from the Arizona desert since 2017. Their releases — Monuments to Departed Worlds and The Elysian Void — deal in the kind of monolithic, slow-burning devastation that sounds like the Sonoran landscape crumbling to dust.
Anakreb channels black metal from the Breton port of Brest since 2021, drawing from Finistère's wind-battered Atlantic coastline. Their sound captures the raw, maritime intensity of France's westernmost city.
Anakronistisk crafts atmospheric black metal from Leeds since 2017, their Scandinavian-spelled name meaning "anachronistic" reflecting a deliberate dislocation from modern conventions. Their West Yorkshire origins feed expansive, time-defying compositions.
Starting as a grindcore act in the Basque town of Azkoitia, Anakrosis evolved into a technically demanding brutal death metal force on releases like 2019's "Perpetual Nightmare," drawing comparisons to Hour of Penance and Cerebral Effusion. Their trajectory from raw grind to precision brutality traces the ambitions of a band constantly pushing their own limits.
Anal Aids delivers goregrind from Västervik in Småland since 2011. Their deliberately offensive name signals the confrontational extremity of their microsecond compositions from this eastern Swedish coastal town.
Minneapolis grindcore provocateurs who arrived in 2022 with a demo and a split with the equally charming Cloacal Protuberance. Crude, fast, and deliberately offensive — grindcore in its purest, most gleefully juvenile form.
Anal Bleeding creates death metal and goregrind from Moscow since 2022. Their unflinchingly graphic name signals the visceral, body-horror extremity that defines their capital-city grindhouse aesthetic.
Anal Carnage is a death/grind band from Victoria, Chile, whose origins trace back to a grindcore project called Necrosis before the band adopted their current name. They released a self-titled demo in 2007 and followed it with the six-track record "Uncontainable Temptation to Kill" in 2009, establishing a brutal sonic identity rooted in the Chilean underground extreme metal scene.
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