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Oklahoma black metal project shrouded in deliberate obscurity. Minimal information and a single untitled release — black metal reduced to its most essential and enigmatic form.
Newtown black metal project from the Connecticut underground.
Anfauglir are a raw black metal band from Santiago, Chile, whose work draws on themes of magic, war, and occultism rooted in Chilean underground traditions. The band released "Demo MMXXIII" as a limited CDr in 2023, documenting their austere and confrontational approach to the genre.
Taking their name from the ash plain of Tolkien's Silmarillion, Vienna's Anfauglith deal in raw, mythologically charged black metal steeped in a Northern European aesthetic. Their releases are austere and uncompromising, favouring abrasive production and tremolo-driven passages that evoke desolate, pre-Christian landscapes.
Anfauglith is a folk/pagan black metal band from Olinda, Pernambuco, whose name is drawn from J.R.R. Tolkien's Silmarillion — the Sindarin word for "Suffocating Dust" referencing the burning of the plain of Ard-Galen. Formed in 2010, the band draws on Moonsorrow and Thyrfing for their atmospheric framework while weaving in Nordic mythology and medieval paganism, releasing their EP "The Devastation in Ard-Galen" in 2019.
Anfel creates symphonic gothic and doom metal from Tver since 2009. Over fifteen years from this historic city between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, they have crafted orchestrally enriched compositions of dark romanticism.
Anfor is a thrash metal band from Guadalajara de Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, founded in 2004. Their music addresses themes of rebellion, inner struggle, and social critique in the tradition of classic thrash metal. The band records for Living Dead Records and has released audiovisual content across YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.
Anfor is a thrash metal band from Guadalajara de Buga, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, founded in 2004. Their music addresses themes of rebellion, inner struggle, and social critique in the tradition of classic thrash metal. The band records for Living Dead Records and has released audiovisual content across YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram.
Angainor practices black metal from an undisclosed Polish location since 2023. Named after the chain that bound the wolf Fenrir in Norse mythology, they forge compositions of constraining darkness.
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