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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Antabus delivers thrash metal from the eastern Finnish border town of Imatra since 2014, named after the medication used to treat alcohol dependency. Their pharmaceutical name adds a sardonic edge to their straightforward thrash assault.
Bradenton, Florida black metal and hardcore punk hybrid delivering caustic extremity since 2021. Three EPs including the politically charged Prescribed Burning blend crust punk urgency with black metal atmosphere from the Gulf Coast.
Antaeus is one of France's most notorious and uncompromising black metal acts, formed in 1993 in Maisons-Laffitte with frontman MkM channeling Satanism, hate, and self-mutilation into ferocious sonic violence. Associated with the Orthodox black metal movement and Norma Evangelium Diaboli, their intensity approaches an intellectual level of sophistication that matches the ideological conviction behind their music.
Green Bay thrash metal project from the Wisconsin underground.
Antagonist Zero crafts death and doom metal from the coastal town of Porvoo east of Helsinki since 2016. From one of Finland's oldest towns, with its iconic red wooden warehouses, they create music that contrasts the picturesque setting with crushing heaviness.
Antagoniste merges avant-garde experimentation, black metal, and sludge from the French underground since 2007, creating a genre-defying sound of nearly two decades. Their contrarian name suits a project that deliberately opposes conventional musical boundaries.
Gainesville heavy metal / nwothm project from the Florida underground.
Danville, California deathcore and grindcore pioneers with roots stretching back to 1998. Six releases across a decade make them one of the earliest American deathcore acts, predating the genre's mainstream breakthrough from the East Bay suburbs.
Antagonyze is a death metal band from the Bio Bio region of Chile, founded by guitarists Ignacio Riveros and Francisco Álvarez and bassist Mateo Gutiérrez. The band released the demo cassette Echoes from Soul in 2020 and later re-recorded and expanded that material into their debut full-length Interpretations of the Unknown Wilderness, released in April 2024 on Chaos Records. The album was recorded at Estudio Chains in Los Ángeles, Chile, and drew praise for its old-school 1990s death metal approach with thrashing, prog-inflected intensity.
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