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Black Metal project from the American underground.
Angurvadel conjures black metal from Åmot in Hedmark since 2024, named after a mythic Norse sword whose blade glowed in times of war. From the forested interior of eastern Norway, they forge black metal with legendary weaponry at its core.
Angus Black conjures doom and stoner metal from Helsinki since 2017, blending crushing heaviness with the hazy grooves of psychedelic rock. Their sound navigates the murky intersection of Finland's doom metal heritage and stoner rock's cosmic wanderings.
Angélida blends symphonic, gothic, and power metal from Zaragoza with female-fronted vocals and intricate guitar solos woven through every track. Across three albums including "Decanimae," "La Ciudad de los Pájaros," and "La Liga Onírica," they've built a lush, genre-spanning sound rooted in Aragonese creativity.
Angústia are a black metal band from Zürich, Switzerland, formed in 2002, whose lyrical stance is explicitly anti-Nazi and anti-fascist — an ideological position unusual within the often apolitical Swiss underground. The band's status has since become uncertain, leaving them as a document of politicized Swiss second-wave black metal.
Anhaguama is a death/black metal band from Arujá, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2019 and operating in the underground extreme metal scene of greater São Paulo. Their music draws from the aggressive intersection of death and black metal, a tradition with deep roots in Brazil's extreme metal history.
Anhan is a depressive black metal project from Nossa Senhora da Glória, Sergipe, Brazil — a notably isolated location for the genre in the Brazilian northeast. Formed in 2014, the project released the EP "Na Escuridão" that year, working within the DSBM tradition of slow, bleak compositions and introspective, despairing atmospheres.
Anhangah is a raw black metal project from Artur Nogueira, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2025. The project released a demo and the single "Profecia do Caos," working in the lo-fi, primitively produced style characteristic of raw black metal with lyrics rooted in occult and prophetic themes.
New Jersey death/doom project whose 2023 debut Deathcult Resurrection deals in the genre's most oppressive extremes. Glacial pacing meets guttural fury, conjuring the ritualistic atmosphere their name demands.
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