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Birmingham, United Kingdom (1999 – present)

Anaal Nathrakh is a metal band formed in Birmingham, UK in 1999 that fuse and elements into an underlying style. The band is signed to Feto Records, which is run by Anaal Nathrakh’s Mick Kenney and Shane Embury (Napalm Death, Brujeria, Lock Up, Venomous Concept)

The name comes from Merlin’s Charm of Making in John Boorman’s Excalibur (1981). Given Michael Everson’s transcription, Anaal Nathrakh means “serpent’s breath”.

Anaal Nathrakh is typically described as black metal, despite eschewing the aesthetic of many black metal bands, dressing in a casual manner, as opposed to the theatrical corpsepaint and spiked leather clothing traditionally favored by the black metal subculture.

The band originally started as a raw black metal band, but soon changed to blackened grindcore. Through the use of distorted samples, sound effects and programmed drums, much of its work also falls into the industrial metal category, though the band uses no keyboards.

Lyrics are not published, and, prior to their employment of clean vocals, facetious rumors abounded that the band didn’t have any actual lyrics since the vocals were completely incomprehensible. But from the song titles, increasingly common clean passages, and information given in interviews, the band’s work seems to revolve around apocalyptic themes, the nature of mortality, and misanthropy.

Anaal Nathrakh, like many black metal bands, draw much inspiration from the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche, exemplified by such song titles as “Human, All Too Fucking Human” and “Revaluation of All Values.”
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    You a half-Saiyan

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    @UndeadMessiah: B-but IT'S 50% AND 25% DUDE

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  • BlooDGothika wrote:
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    The Hell Is Empty, And All The Devils Are Here

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    Good Stuff

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    Wednesday morning
    The Jews will rise again!!

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  • UndeadMessiah wrote:
    Tuesday evening
    The jew negates the russian, unfortunately. Sorry Sunken :P

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  • Agravenlife wrote:
    Tuesday afternoon
    @amaerth: Indeed. @BakerJustin: Scroll down the shoutbox pages and read my first post. As for there being more aesthetic value in a fictitious concept compared to another fictitious concept, there ain't. If all hip-hop were equal, and if all post-rock were equal (i.e. identical, because this is what being equal really means), then it would have made sense to compare one genre with another in this way.

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  • NihilisticRust wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    @AsphyxiaTorment: Well, in that case...

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  • BakerJustin wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    I do agree that passion was lacking. I never fully understood why I didn't like it... just something missing.

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  • BakerJustin wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    There is objectively more artistic value in post rock than hip hop. Doesn't mean one is better than the other.

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  • AsphyxiaTorment wrote:
    Tuesday morning
    Do what Oss commands for she is a Russian. We all know the inhuman powers the Russians possess...

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    Tuesday morning
    relax

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    Monday evening
    everyonebutthurt

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  • Kaltenhoenn wrote:
    Monday afternoon
    No arguments, just insulting. Eot.

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  • NihilisticRust wrote:
    Monday afternoon
    Good job. You just proved how right I am.

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  • Agravenlife wrote:
    Monday morning
    Dawson: "don't use the word 'pretentious' very often because I find it to be over used", I've not got lols big enough for you. Kaltenhoenn: What the hell are you on about? You sound like some kind of new age doofus. NihilisticRust: Rawr rawr rawr, teenage angst etc. And you haven't understood a single word I've said. If the article I linked needed further elaboration, I wouldn't have linked it in the first place, that how great a writer that guy is. And seriously, you whine a lot.

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    Hey. Why don't you idiots go fuck yourselves?

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    Love how this shoutbox has descended from talking about this sick band, to talking shit about each others' art preferences. Jesus fucking Christ...

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  • NihilisticRust wrote:
    Sunday evening
    @Agravenlife: Your mental wall of shit has completely rendered you stupid that you can't even understand what I'm saying. You can have your opinion, but you can't say it's the objective truth. SIMPLE AS THAT. Do you think that just because you're majoring in some psychology or art or whatever, makes you a connoisseur of art? No. You're just regurgitating the thoughts of psychologists, artists, and philosophers and making them your own, and just linking us to articles without actually telling us what we need to understand from it just shows how fucking pathetic you are. Not just that, but why do you have to make every shoutbox a hellhole, a filthy abomination in which you simply throw your shit around like a fucking primate, hoping to prove your failed dominance. Belitting others who disagree with you with filth just to feel better about your smug self. You're just bullshit. Go back to the troll-cave from which you came from, retard.

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  • UndeadMessiah wrote:
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    My shitty opinion>your shitty opinion, and Kaltenhoenn's shitty opinion is shittier than the rest of ours, and is thus correct. Postmodernism does tend to incite the ire of many a voyeur of the higher aesthetic

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