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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Angizia are a long-running Viennese avant-garde ensemble who blend doom, gothic, and symphonic metal with chamber music and Expressionist literary themes. Albums such as Das Schachbrett des Trommelbuben Zacharias and Das Tagebuch der Hanna Anikin are full-length conceptual works that function almost as dark operettas, using strings, piano, and sung German narrative to tell bleak, Kafkaesque stories.
Corpus Christi thrash/crossover that released two albums on Metal Blade. Reformed in 2018.
Bakersfield, California Tolkien-obsessed black metal project crafting epic narratives from the Silmarillion since 2019. Named after one of the cursed swords of Middle-earth, their albums trace specific tales — Tuor's journey to Gondolin, the sea-longing of the Elves — through atmospheric black metal that takes its literary source material with scholarly seriousness.
Anglachel was a traditional heavy metal band from Jaguariúna, São Paulo, drawing heavily from the New Wave of British Heavy Metal with Iron Maiden-influenced twin guitar harmonies and dual vocals. The band released a demo in 2003 and the four-track single "Hellish Domains" in 2005, earning comparisons to Bruce Dickinson-era Iron Maiden before eventually ceasing activity.
Angles Morts creates death metal from Rotterdam as of 2025. Their French name meaning 'blind spots' or 'dead angles' drives music that attacks from unexpected directions in the Dutch port city's underground.
Northern New Jersey death metal project.
Angmodnes channels funeral doom metal from Utrecht since 2022. Their Old English name meaning 'anxiety' or 'anguish' guides glacially paced compositions of profound emotional weight from the Dutch cathedral city.
Angona explores progressive metal with Middle Eastern folk influences from Antalya on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. Their name, shared with a theoretical dark-matter companion star, drives compositions that fuse Western progressive metal structures with Anatolian musical traditions.
Angor is a Vienna-based black/doom project whose recordings layer glacial, dirge-paced riffs over a bleak atmosphere shaped by early-Scandinavian black metal orthodoxy. Their music favours long-form compositions that unfold slowly, weaponising repetition and dissonance to cultivate a sense of spiritual desolation.
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