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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Andy Sacro creates industrial black metal from Zawadzkie in Opole Voivodeship since 2020. From this small Upper Silesian industrial town, they forge a mechanical, electronically enhanced strain of black metal.
Andy's Fire plays heavy metal and hard rock from an undisclosed Swedish location since 2022. Their personal, informal name brings a garage-band directness to classic metal traditions.
Anebulah is a one-man black metal project from San José, Costa Rica, formed by Santiago Umaña in 2020. The project has released a steady stream of material including "The Renaissance of Triumphant" (2023) and "Sacrophobia" (2024), the latter issued through Depressive Illusions Records in a limited run of 66 copies. The music adheres to a traditional raw black metal aesthetic rooted in themes of darkness and spiritual disdain.
Anemi merges power and thrash metal from Paris since 2019, creating a volatile hybrid that combines anthemic melody with aggressive velocity. Their name evokes a blood-drained weakness that contrasts with the vitality of their sound.
Chicago and Oklahoma City doom metal collaboration channeling existential dread since 2021. Their full-length How to Look Forward to the Apocalypse pairs a darkly humorous title with genuinely crushing doom, while Life In Jars suggests a more intimate, claustrophobic heaviness.
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.
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