Anima

Nordhausen, Germany's Anima (not to be confused with a half-dozen different metal bands strewn across the planet sharing the name) began taking shape in 2005, when guitarist André Steinmann and drummer Benjamin Kühnemund started a group named Metmachines, acquiring second guitarist Steven Holl and bassist Justin Schüler a short time later. Even before the year was out, they had renamed themselves Today Heaven's Dying, and then assumed their present, one-word moniker by 2006, at which time their original vocalist had departed to make way for new frontman Robert Horn. This lineu...