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Wichita, Kansas thrash metal act refining their sound since 2020. A remastered self-titled album and the later Shatter the Screen EP demonstrate a band committed to perfecting their craft from the middle of the Great Plains.
Canton, Ohio groove metal project named after a Between the Buried and Me track, emerging in 2025 with two releases. Doomworld Technologik blends industrial and metal influences for a sound that matches their dystopian name.
Antti Martikainen is an independent Finnish composer who bridges epic orchestral music with symphonic metal, creating everything from Celtic metal reworks to Nordic folk metal across a prolific catalogue. Running his own Omniscore label, his work on albums like "Northern Steel" showcases a singular vision that spans fantasy, medieval, and world music traditions.
Antumbra channels atmospheric black metal from Sibiu in Transylvania since 2019. Named after the lightest part of a shadow during an eclipse, their compositions explore the liminal space between darkness and light from the Carpathian highlands.
Antvmny channels folk metal from the Alpine city of Grenoble since 2024, their alchemically-spelled name referencing the metalloid antimony. Their folk-metal fusion brings the traditional music of the Dauphiné into collision with heavy metal's power.
Antyesti practices raw black metal from Bucharest since 2024. Named after the Hindu last rites funeral ceremony, they bring Eastern mortality rituals into the framework of lo-fi black metal.
Antyra is an epic metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2009, whose genre-defying approach blends heavy, power, pagan, melodic death, and black metal into skillfully arranged songs centered on fantasy, mythology, and history. Their catalog includes the EP In the Fields of Marathon, the albums Pentachronist and Poiema, and a Therion cover contribution, earning press descriptions of powerful music played beyond genre borders.
Formed in 2015 in Heist-op-den-Berg and later based in Lier, Antzaat takes their name from an old Dutch word meaning hostile and hateful. Their debut album For You Men Who Gaze Into The Sun on Immortal Frost Productions delivers melodic black metal in the vein of Scandinavian and Finnish forbears, driven by the compositional vision of guitarist/mastermind Ronarg, also known from Ars Veneficium.
Antídoto fuses heavy metal with punk energy from the Asturian mining town of Langreo, channeling the region's working-class traditions into high-octane performance. Since 2018, they've embodied the DIY spirit of northern Spain's industrial heartland.
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