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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Santa Fe, New Mexico thrash metal project whose 2024 single Spell Of Evil channels the high desert's mystical energy into riff-driven fury. Goblin-themed metal from the Land of Enchantment.
Lexington black metal project from the Kentucky underground.
One of the oldest bands in the Czech heavy metal scene, Anopheles were founded in autumn 1978 in Kladno, with a sound the founding members dubbed 'coal rock' — a local term for their blend of hard rock and heavy metal. Communist-era censors forced the band to briefly operate under the name Laser, but they eventually reclaimed their identity and released albums Snídaně s Bachem (2012) and My Bohemia (2020).
Anopheles is a death metal band from Rio de Janeiro with roots going back to the mid-1990s Brazilian extreme metal scene. The band recorded their foundational release "Abstention of Life" in May 1995 at Estúdio Manhatan in Rio de Janeiro, an album that has since circulated among collectors of rare Brazilian demo recordings. Their lyrical themes deal with agony, suffering, and the darker dimensions of humanity.
Anorak is a raw black metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, active since the late 2000s and signed to Holokaostor Productions. The band operates firmly in the lo-fi, primitive black metal tradition, with lyrical themes centered on Satanism, anti-Christianity, and blasphemy.
Anoreksi delivers melodic death metal from Istanbul since 2018. Their Turkish spelling of 'anorexia' drives compositions of hungry intensity from the Bosphorus metropolis.
Sharing their name with the legendary Nantes symphonic black metal act of the 1990s, this incarnation of Anorexia Nervosa has been carrying the banner from 2015 onward. Their multi-genre blend of black, death, industrial, and symphonic metal continues the tradition of boundary-pushing extreme music from the Loire-Atlantique capital.
Watertown, Massachusetts black metal project whose 2013 EP Bedroom Songs strips the genre to its most intimate and vulnerable. The ellipsis in the name and the domestic setting of the title suggest a deeply personal approach to extreme music.
Anorganic explores avant-garde death metal from Zarechny in the Penza Region since 2015. Their synthetic name — the opposite of organic — drives compositions that reject natural forms in favor of artificial extremity.
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