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Animosity Kills thrashes from Askøy, an island municipality near Bergen, since 2017. Their violent-hostility name drives compositions of relentless speed and aggression from the archipelago off Norway's western coast.
Illinois metalcore and thrash hybrid whose 2019 debut The Phaneron — a philosophical term for the totality of experience — pairs cerebral ambition with physical aggression. Heavier music for the thinking mosher.
Animus Meminisse Horret merges avant-garde experimentation with black metal from Paris since 2012, their Virgilian Latin quote meaning "the mind shudders to remember" reflecting a project rooted in literary horror. Their intellectually demanding approach sets them apart within the Parisian underground.
Animus Necandi is a thrash metal band from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, drawing from the aggressive, fast-picking tradition of Brazilian thrash metal. Originally active from 2004 with a 2005 demo titled "Bloody World," the band later resumed activity, representing the thrash underground of Brazil's northeastern capital.
Animus Noctis is a black metal band from Nettgau in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany, active since 2005, whose name translates to 'spirit of the night' from Latin. The band has maintained a two-decade presence in the rural east German black metal underground, channeling the isolation of their small-town origins into the genre's characteristic darkness.
Sparta, Michigan death metal outfit who released both a full-length and EP in 2019. Lynching The Lunacy and Mangled deliver West Michigan brutality with the kind of unflinching directness their name demands.
Anion Effect creates melodic death metal from Kaliningrad since 2015. Named after the negatively charged ion, their electrochemical identity drives over a decade of melodic extremity from Russia's Baltic exclave.
Somerset, Massachusetts death metal and grindcore hybrid with three releases since 2021. Named after charged particles, their music carries a similar volatile energy — the provocatively titled Happiness Through Fentanyl pulls no punches about the opioid crisis devastating small-town New England.
Aniron is a symphonic gothic metal band from Buenos Aires fronted by soprano vocalist Bárbara Rossi, whose lyrical singing is the defining element of the band's sound. The project coalesced around guitarist Diego Mancilla and keyboardist Julio Sotelo before Rossi joined, and the band released their debut EP Concealed Within in July 2013. The name Aniron is taken from Elvish, meaning "I desire."
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