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Anemic Death channels black metal from Oulu as of 2025, their name evoking a weakened, bloodless form of mortality. From the subarctic Finnish city, they bring a pallid, ice-cold vision of black metal.
Quakertown sludge metal project from the Pennsylvania underground.
Anemija are a heavy metal band from Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina, operating under the anomia-prod imprint. Their music sits in the traditional heavy metal space informed by the classic European and Yugoslav rock tradition, building on clean, riff-driven songwriting and an emphasis on melody that distinguishes them from the country's more extreme metal scene.
McNabb, Illinois black metal project named after the feeling of nostalgia for a time you never experienced. Their two albums — memories you never had and autumn rains — deliver atmospheric, melancholic black metal from rural Illinois, the lowercase titles reflecting a deliberately understated aesthetic.
Anemone crafts symphonic metal from an undisclosed Serbian location since 2018. Their delicate-flower name brings unexpected beauty to orchestrally enhanced compositions of power and drama.
Anemye crafts atmospheric and post-black metal from Veliky Novgorod since 2022. Their name, suggesting anemia or weakness, brings a pallid fragility to atmospheric compositions from one of Russia's oldest cities.
Anencefalo were a crossover thrash band from Santiago, Chile, active across several periods between 2004 and 2023, who evolved from punk-inflected death metal into a harder-edged thrash and crossover style. Their discography includes the albums "Odio" (2009) and "Cefalotripsia" (2011), with lyrics addressing mental illness, death, and depersonalization throughout their career.
Anencephalic delivers death metal from the Scottish border town of Dumfries since 2017, their medical-term name referencing the absence of a brain creating a darkly ironic contrast with their technically demanding compositions.
Anencephalus is a death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021, adding to the capital city's diverse and thriving extreme metal scene. The band's clinical name reflects the unflinching brutality of their death metal approach.
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