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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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Ypsilanti, Michigan death metal act whose name belies surprisingly competent extreme music. Their 2017 debut Astralthrone and follow-up Doomkeeper pair cosmic themes with punishing death metal, operating from the fringes of the Detroit metro area's underground.
Anal Crush is the solo industrial-metal project of Madrid's Frank Iván, born from a need to explore music's darkest and most brutal extremes. Spanning industrial, black metal, and hardcore, the project defies easy categorization with its genre-melting approach.
Anal Cunt was an American grindcore and noisecore band formed in Newton, Massachusetts in 1988 by Seth Putnam, the group's sole consistent member throughout its existence. Notorious for deliberately offensive song titles and lyrics deployed as provocation, the band also produced genuinely extreme noise and grindcore at speeds and abrasiveness that influenced subsequent acts in the genre. They released eight studio albums before disbanding in 2011 following Putnam's death from a suspected heart attack.
Houston death metal project. The name alone serves as a mission statement for uncompromising extremity.
Anal Dismember delivers brutal death metal and grindcore from Hampshire since 2010, their deliberately repulsive name embracing the genre's tradition of shock-value provocation. Over a decade of extreme music from the south coast speaks to sustained commitment.
Pittsburgh death metal project. Steel City brutality with a name that leaves nothing to the imagination.
New Jersey death metal project. The Garden State's contribution to anatomically fixated extreme music.
Anal Fister are a death metal band from Bad Goisern in Upper Austria, a small town in the Salzkammergut region, who embrace the provocateur tradition of goregrind and brutal death with album titles like 123 Fistfuck and Passion Fisti, both released in 2012. The band combines brutal death metal riffing with a self-aware, irreverent approach that places them in the tradition of Austrian and German underground extremity.
Anal Holokaust delivers black and death metal from Bucharest since 2014. Their deliberately provocative name drives over a decade of confrontational extremity from Romania's largest city.
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