Anwyl

Kansas doesn't really have anything resembling a metal scene. Our only major contributions to metal are Manilla Road and Origin. On top of that, it's really hard to be a metalhead in Kansas. Most of us are too poor to afford instruments, so we can't form our own bands, and all the major metal bands and festivals avoid this state as if the people were infested with AIDS. The guys who own Metal Inquisition complain about how, back when they were teenagers in Brazil, they had to rely on three-year-old issues of Metal Hammer in order to learn about metal. Where I come from, we don't even have Metal Hammer. Not only that, but the closest thing we have to a record store is Wal-Mart, and their metal section is almost non-existent. The most underground band they have available is Megadeth. This is why I created the Treasure Hoard in the first place. I wanted to help out people who were in situations just like my own.

But I'm not here to give you my life story. I'm here to bring you some great, obscure metal. You remember how I said that there aren't many metal bands in Kansas? Well, there are a few — although they're really obscure — and one of the best, most obscure bands is Anwyl. They formed in 1997 in Hutchinson, which is only an hour's drive from where I live. Whereas everyone else was playing country or some other popular bullshit, Anwyl was crafting vicious, violent, take-no-prisoners Blackened Death Metal in the vein of Blasphemy, Black Witchery, and Angelcorpse. The Kansas crowds had no idea what to make of them. Many people decried them as servants of Satan, but the chosen few who attended their shows constantly absolutely adored them. They kept playing furiously until 2011 when their guitarist tragically committed suicide. I want to pick up physical copies of their work, but they're ridiculously rare, so I'll just settle for the mp3s instead. In this RAR, I have included both the Bloody Mary EP and the Postmortem Apocalypse full-length.

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