Anemone crafts symphonic metal from an undisclosed Serbian location since 2018. Their delicate-flower name brings unexpected beauty to orchestrally enhanced compositions of power and drama.

Anemye crafts atmospheric and post-black metal from Veliky Novgorod since 2022. Their name, suggesting anemia or weakness, brings a pallid fragility to atmospheric compositions from one of Russia's oldest cities.

Anencephalic delivers death metal from the Scottish border town of Dumfries since 2017, their medical-term name referencing the absence of a brain creating a darkly ironic contrast with their technically demanding compositions.

Anencephalus is a death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2021, adding to the capital city's diverse and thriving extreme metal scene. The band's clinical name reflects the unflinching brutality of their death metal approach.

Anesmwythder channels depressive black metal from Wales since 2014, their Welsh-language name meaning "restlessness" or "anxiety" connecting their DSBM to Wales's Celtic linguistic heritage. Over a decade of Welsh-language extreme metal reflects deep cultural commitment.

Hailing from Košťany/Teplice in northern Bohemia, Anestesia play thrash metal with a raw, direct approach, releasing albums including Terapia and the 2022 effort Fenix. Their 2024 follow-up Azken Heriotza demonstrates the band's continued drive and consistency within the Czech thrash underground.

Anestezija delivers groove and thrash metal from Kikinda in Vojvodina since 1989, over three decades of activity making them one of Serbia's most enduring metal acts. Their Serbian name for 'anesthesia' has guided a career that predates the country's independence.

Anestezja channels death and thrash metal from Warsaw since 2023. Their Polish name meaning 'anaesthesia' promises the numbing intensity their capital-city extremity delivers.

A thrash/death metal band from Kortrijk formed in 1988 whose career ran until 2000, placing them among the first generation of Belgian death and thrash hybrids. They contributed tracks to the Detonation compilation series in the early 1990s and featured various vocalists and guitarists including Frank "Liberty" Libeert before disbanding.

Anesys fuses death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore from the Atlantic port of La Rochelle since 2016. Their anesthesia-inspired name contrasts with music designed to jolt listeners into full sensory awareness.

Anethera is an industrial death and doom metal solo project from Haderslev, Denmark, created by Dan Monberg Skott, whose 2021 release Fiat Justicia Ruat Caelum contains three tracks originally recorded in 2012 and rediscovered in an old Dropbox archive. The project focuses on keeping music simple and atmospheric within the industrial death metal framework.

Anette Olzon is the Swedish vocalist best known for fronting Nightwish from 2007-2012, now pursuing solo symphonic and power metal from Katrineholm in Södermanland. Her powerful voice and dramatic flair continue to shape her personal musical vision beyond her tenure with the Finnish symphonic metal giants.

Anew creates symphonic black metal from an undisclosed Portuguese location since 2017. Their brief, renewal-focused name brings a transformative energy to the orchestrally enhanced black metal they craft.

Taking their name from the ash plain of Tolkien's Silmarillion, Vienna's Anfauglith deal in raw, mythologically charged black metal steeped in a Northern European aesthetic. Their releases are austere and uncompromising, favouring abrasive production and tremolo-driven passages that evoke desolate, pre-Christian landscapes.

Anfel creates symphonic gothic and doom metal from Tver since 2009. Over fifteen years from this historic city between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, they have crafted orchestrally enriched compositions of dark romanticism.