Anaal Nathrakh are a British metal band formed in 1999 who fuse black metal, grindcore, death metal and industrial music. Anaal Nathrakh originally set loose their debut album The Codex Necro on an unsuspecting world in 2001. The list of accolades grew - Album Of The Month in Terrorizer magazine (9.5/10) , along with a track on the cover mounted CD, 4/5 in Kerrang magazine along with a request for the band to appear in a full page article, voted best newcomer of 2001 by the readers of Terrorizer, plus number 8 in the Albums Of The Year writers poll. The band also appeared on BBC Radio 1 at the personal behest of sadly missed icon John Peel. The Codex Necro is still to this day considered a landmark of misanthropic extremity!