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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.
Savage Black / Death Metal out of Texas.
Anesmwythder channels depressive black metal from Wales since 2014, their Welsh-language name meaning "restlessness" or "anxiety" connecting their DSBM to Wales's Celtic linguistic heritage. Over a decade of Welsh-language extreme metal reflects deep cultural commitment.
Hailing from Košťany/Teplice in northern Bohemia, Anestesia play thrash metal with a raw, direct approach, releasing albums including Terapia and the 2022 effort Fenix. Their 2024 follow-up Azken Heriotza demonstrates the band's continued drive and consistency within the Czech thrash underground.
Anestesia was a thrash metal band from Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil, formed around 1987 and active into the early 1990s as part of the first wave of Brazilian thrash. Operating out of Manaus — geographically isolated from the main São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro metal hubs — the band recorded a demo "Total Massacre" and contributed tracks to the Brazilian thrash underground, their themes centered on human and social concerns.
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