Vanitas

Anaal Nathrakh's albums are labyrinths of hyperactivity and idiosyncrasy. Challenging and evocative, the industrial-tinged British grindcore band's latest album is a thrill ride of horrors and unexpected hooks.

The seventh full-length release by Anaal Nathrakh finds them continuing to indulge in their way around black metal, thrash, and grindcore as they long have, and if surprises are few one gets the sense that the now veteran duo -- up to nearly 15 years of work by 2012 -- would regard that as secondary to the overall impact.

With their seventh full-length, Vanitas, Birmingham, UK's Anaal Nathrakh remind listeners that the number seven plays an important role in the biblical apocalypse.

Starting in 1999, Birmingham, England's ANAAL NATHRAKH has blazed an inexorable career of sonic destruction, melding black metal with grindcore and industrial elements (among other things) as they see fit (and unfit!) in achieving their quest to produce the most terrifying music imaginable. Througho...

A review of Vanitas by Anaal Nathrakh, out now in Europe and on November 6th in North America via Candlelight Records.

Anaal Nathrakh - Vanitas review: Anaal Nathrakh bounce back and find a form of consistency again.