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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Denver death metal project whose 2021 EP Dissection of the Abhorrent delivers clinical brutality from Colorado's growing extreme underground. The title promises anatomical precision in its violence, and the music follows through.
Anthrocite delivers death metal from the Scottish city of Perth since 2016, their anthracite-coal name evoking the dense, carbon-rich intensity of their sound. Their Tayside origins feed a distinctly Scottish approach to extreme metal.
Massachusetts black metal project whose 2022 demo Drape the Earth in Horror channels apocalyptic vision through lo-fi black metal production. A raw, atmospheric offering from New England's fertile underground.
A death metal band from Halle, Flemish Brabant, formed in November 2007 by guitarist Glenn and drummer Maxime with the stated aim of producing death metal "as brutal as possible" through frenetic rhythms, aggressive percussion, and gore-inflected lyrics. Their debut full-length Anima In Decay (2017) contains nine original tracks plus a bonus track.
Anthropia explores progressive metal from the Nice and Antibes area on the Côte d'Azur since 2009, bringing technical sophistication to the Mediterranean riviera. Their humanistic name reflects a project centered on the complexity of the human experience.
Buffalo, New York grindcore outfit with three releases since 2018. Their full-length Architects of Aggression and split with Ruin establish them as key players in Western New York's extreme music scene, delivering the rapid-fire violence the genre demands.
Olympia, Washington death/thrash project named after humanity's geological era of environmental impact. Their 2016 EP Bitter Beginnings channels eco-anxiety through aggressive metal from the Pacific Northwest capital.
Anthropoid channels doom and sludge metal from Napajedla in the Zlín Region since 2018, sharing their name with the WWII operation to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in Prague. This Czech wartime reference brings historical weight to their crushing, slow-tempo heaviness.
Anthropoid Idol is a black and death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2024, whose name evokes primitive, totemic imagery fitting the primal extremity of their combined black and death metal approach. The band is among the newest extreme metal acts in the Copenhagen scene.
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