History Music / AnaalNathrakh

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Downplayed by "A Metaphor for the Dead", "The Joystream", and "Requiem".

* ''[[LongTitle When Fire Rains Down From the Sky, Humanity Will Reap as it has Sown]]'' (EP, 2003)

Dave Hunt was also the vocalist for the DeathMetal band Benediction from 1998 until 2019, while Mick Kenney also works as record producer and co-runs the record label [=FETO=] Records along with Music/NapalmDeath bassist Shane Embury.

* ShoutOut: They directly reference ''[[Film/MontyPythonsTheMeaningOfLife Monty Python's The Meaning of Life]]'' on "The Age of Starlight Ends."

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: While it firmly established Anaal Nathrakh's reputation as a fearsome band and laid the foundation for their signature sound, ''The Codex Necro'' is a raw, chaotic, and aggressive BlackMetal album with no clean vocals or the experimentation with other extreme genres the band would start doing with ''Domine Non Es Dignus''.

* SinisterSwine: The cover art of the album ''Endarkenment'' (which isn't present in most of its releases) depicts [[https://www.metal-archives.com/images/9/5/3/2/953270.jpg?4819 an ominous-looking pig head with penises for eyes]]. Pigs are also mentioned in two of the tracks (the title track, whose music video features [[PigMan Pig Men]], and "Libidinous (A Pig with Cocks in Its Eyes)").

* SurprisinglyGentleSong: Downplayed by "A Metaphor for the Dead" and "The Joystream".

Their next two releases, ''Domine Non Es Dignus'' and ''Eschaton'', in 2004 and 2006, respectively, continued along the same path as their debut, receiving similar praise from metal publications. Then, with 2007's ''Hell Is Empty and All the Devils Are Here'', they took their already brutalizing sound and make it ''[[UpToEleven even more brutal]]'' by incorporating elements of DeathMetal, {{Grindcore}}, and {{Industrial}} into their sound. This album is considered to be the band's breakthrough release, receiving acclaim from critics and a spot on Metal Storm's "Top 100 Black Metal Albums of All Time" list. Their next four albums have since followed in the same extreme fusion style, and to this day the group is going strong.

* ViewersAreGeniuses: The band never publish their lyrics, except for two individual instances with the songs "Tod Huetet Uebel" and "Forward!" before they broke this tradition with ''Endarkenment''. This leaves the fans to pick apart the lyrics themselves, the almost constant IndecipherableLyrics taken UpToEleven be damned.

Despite their acclaim, Anaal Nathrakh are ''definitely'' not a band for everyone. Their music is noisy and intense even by extreme metal standards, to the level many ''metalheads'' consider them to be one of the heaviest bands ever. Make of that what you will.

* FilkSong: "Virus Bomb" appears to be based on the eponymous superweapon in ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000''.

* NeoclassicalPunkZydecoRockabilly: Their genre of choice could be best described as... ''{{Industrial}} [[BlackMetal blackened]] [[DeathMetal death]][[{{Grindcore}} grind]]''.

* ContemptibleCover: The cover art for ''Endarkenment'', which only appears in certain releases of the album, depicts a pig's head with erect penises for eyes. This is pretty much a visual representation of the album's fourth track's title, "Libidinous (A Pig with Cocks in Its Eyes)".

* MetalScream: Mostly type 1 and type 4 with occasional type 2 and 3s.

* ReligionRantSong: "Idol" from ''Desideratum'' is a type 1. "Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes" from ''Eschaton'' is remarkably [[SarcasmMode subtle]] about it.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness: Their material usually does not drop below a 10 and frequently pushes deeply into 11 territory, but they also have more melodic elements and clean vocals which often pushes songs that would be an 11 to a 10. On rare occasions, their songs can go down to a hard 9, such as "The Joystream" and "Do Not Speak". "A Metaphor for the Dead" is their softest song, with the possible exception of a couple of their intro tracks, at a soft 8.

* WarIsHell: This seems to be the main theme of ''A New Kind of Horror''.

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