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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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From the tiny Andalusian mountain village of Benaocaz, Anomia delivers heavy and power metal that seems impossibly ambitious for such a remote origin. Since 2017, they've channeled the rugged beauty of Cádiz province's Sierra de Grazalema into anthemic, fist-raising metal.
Anomine delivers melodic death metal from Oulu since 2019, adding to northern Finland's deep tradition of extreme music infused with Scandinavian melody. Their unusual name sets them apart in a crowded field of Finnish melodeath.
Anomos delivers melodic death metal from Edinburgh since 2018, their Greek name meaning "lawless" reflecting an approach that defies musical conventions. Their Scottish capital origins feed a sound that balances melody with structural rebellion.
Denver gothic and progressive metal project whose 2020 EP Beyond the Pale blends dark atmospherics with technical ambition. Named after the sociological concept of normlessness, they channel existential unease into heavy, ornate compositions.
Anonoument has been fusing death, melodic death, and thrash metal from the lakeside town of Heinola since 2011. Their triple-genre approach creates a versatile extreme metal sound forged in southern Finland's Päijänne region.
Portland folk metal project whose charmingly titled 2017 debut Anonymia's Drunken Album delivers exactly the kind of mead-soaked revelry the name suggests. Folk metal as celebration, not warfare — fitting for Portland's embrace of the unconventional.
Philadelphia progressive thrash metal project with three EPs since 2019. Titles like AL[ego]ry and EPONYM play with linguistic concepts, reflecting a band that approaches thrash metal with intellectual ambition uncommon in the genre.
Salt Lake City thrash metal act with a surprising detour into choral covers — their albums Anonymous Choir Sings Neil Young's After The Gold Rush and Anonymous Choir Sings STAX reimagine classic folk and soul through a heavy metal lens. An utterly unique project from Utah's underground.
Anonymous Bastards are a sleaze-inflected heavy metal band from Monthey, Valais, Switzerland, formed in 2022 and drawing on the swagger of Mötley Crüe, L.A. Guns, and RATT. Their debut four-track EP "A Touch of Evil" established their hook-heavy, riff-driven sound, with the follow-up album "(IN)Famous" arriving in December 2025.
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