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Say The Phrase (2022)
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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Toledo, Ohio death metal project named after the inability to feel pleasure — fitting for music this relentlessly punishing. Eight releases since 2019 demonstrate a prolific commitment to extremity, with Abandon Lust and Ash Wednesday anchoring a substantial catalog from the Glass City.
Anhedonia is a black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, signed to the American extreme metal label Maggot Stomp. Their debut album "Impudent Dominance," released in January 2026, delivers eight tracks of brutal, groove-inflected extreme metal, and sold out its limited vinyl pressing shortly after release.
Columbus death metal project from the Ohio underground.
Anhedonia Nocturne creates depressive black metal from Kyiv since 2024. Named after the inability to feel pleasure combined with darkness, they craft compositions of nocturnal emotional numbness from the Ukrainian capital.
Anhedonia Schizophrenica Nevrosa channels black metal, death metal, deathcore, and depressive black metal from Paris since 2022. Their clinical-psychiatric name, spanning three disorders, signals a project deeply immersed in the psychology of suffering.
Anhedoniac is a German atmospheric black metal project whose 2022 debut album Colossus, released through Entropy and Heresy Productions, delivers four tracks of black metal recorded in 2021 with Audio Non Verba handling production. The album's compositions range from five to eight minutes, building an atmosphere of bleakness through tracks like Harbinger and The Dissolution.
Okmulgee black metal project from the Oklahoma underground.
Anheim is a five-piece black metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, featuring Andergrout on vocals, Bleklys and Nefaros on guitars, Raspad on bass, and Narhammer on drums. Their catalog spans from the 2021 debut Maere einer alten Zeit through Anihorim to the 2025 release Die Welt Die Wir Begruben, blending haunting melodies and intense riffs with epic narrative themes.
Anholt practices black metal from Omsk in western Siberia since 2014. Named after a Danish island, their Scandinavian reference adds a North Sea dimension to their decade of Siberian black metal.
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