genre transcending progressive avant-garde doom-jazz post-metal
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SUNKEN FLEET
Out on August 8th, 2025
Anchor and Burden go maritime.
After chronicling the downfall of mankind and wandering through its irradiated ruins on EXTINCTION LEVEL and AFTERGLOW, Anchor and Burden now descend into the depths with SUNKEN FLEET — an underwater odyssey through drowned wreckage, bioluminescent lifeforms, and spectral echoes of the past. The result is an immersive sound journey - dark, dreamlike, and hauntingly beautiful.
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AFTERGLOW
"Afterglow" is the aftermath of the devastating "Extinction Level" album. For those who have gotten lost in the barren wastelands left behind by Extinction Level, here's your fix.
We heard you and we feed you with brand-new apparitions born in the deep trenches of our souls.
Anchor and Burden continue to shatter the shackles of musical convention and cast themselves into the abyss of an unknown and dangerous morrow. Stay healthy and pack your hazmat suits!
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EXTINCTION LEVEL
DMME.net 2024
The Metal Mag 2024
Anchor and Burden, the progressive avant-garde doom-jazz post-metal group, descend once more from their kosmonautik pilgrimage with a cataclysmic new album, "EXTINCTION LEVEL".
The depths of this offering are filled with a malevolent intensity, as the album deals with the very end of mankind itself and its inevitable descent into a self-wrought apocalypse that engulfs the earth which cradles it.
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Kosmonautik Pilgrimage
Progressive Rock Central, Angel Romero, February 2023
Anchor and Burden - the genre transcending progressive avant-garde doom-jazz post-metal group comes back with their most intense release so far: KOSMONAUTIK PILGRIMAGE.
The album is a bold artistic statement and features the band's unique style of uncompromising instant compositions. The 9 pieces shift seamlessly from atmospheric scifi phases, over cerebral virtuous guitar work to nihilistic bestial carnage that keeps the listener gasping for their breath. Every moment is unique and the collective composition that is happening in the moment is nothing short of miraculous. Anchor and Burden create monolithic architectural behemoths floating in space only to tear them into shreds in the next moment.