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Black Metal Friday: Anaal Nathrakh “Depravity Favours The Bold”
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There is heavy metal and then there is Birmingham steel. England’s most famous foundry town has been an epicenter of extreme music ever since Black Sabbath (arguably) invented heavy metal there in the late 1960s. Birmingham has given us some of metal’s most seminal bands such as Judas Priest and Napalm Death. But perhaps the most extreme and currently influential band to hail from the midlands town is one that not many people outside of the genre of black metal have ever heard of. They are the two man force of nature known as Anaal Nathrakh.

Their name comes from a charm recited by the wizard Merlin in the 1981 film Excalibur and for the last eighteen years they have been casting a spell of their own on extreme metal fans across the globe. Their abrasive elixir consists of black metal with heaping helpings of death metal, grindcore, and industrial music.

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Black Metal Friday: “Idol” By Anaal Nathrakh
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Anaal Nathrakh is a two-man industrial, blackened, death metal band from Birmingham, England. Their name comes from Merlin’s Charm of Making in John Boorman’s 1981 film Excalibur.

Listen to the audio of Anaal Nathrakh’s new single “Idol” here below.

Despite being active since 1999, the band is still considered by many to be on the cutting edge of modern extreme metal. Desideratum, the band’s eighth studio album, will be available worldwide via Metal Blade Records on October 28, 2014. Here is a preview of the first single, “Idol.”

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