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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.
Razor-sharp Thrash Metal from Corpus Christi.
Anic has been delivering heavy metal from Glasgow since 2011, contributing to Scotland's largest city's sustained metal scene for over a decade. Their straightforward approach channels the working-class energy of Clydeside.
Omaha crust punk project from the Nebraska underground.
New York City black metal stalwarts with six releases since 2012. Their catalog — including splits with Forest of Tygers and the full-length Exegeses — establishes them as one of the key voices in NYC's thriving black metal underground, blending urban intensity with atmospheric depth.
Anihilar is a raw black metal project emerging from Catalonia in 2024, stripped to its most primal and lo-fi essence. The project embraces the genre's most uncompromising aesthetic, rejecting polish in favor of pure sonic hostility.
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