Nordhausen, Germany’s Anima 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 lineup all of whom were still in their teens, incidentally was responsible for Anima’s self-produced first album, Souls of the Decedents, which secured the group a deal with local All Life Ends Records. But Anima was already working on new material soon after its release, and after posting five songs on their MySpace page, they attracted the attention of Metal Blade Records, which offered them a new contract and released the group’s sophomore album, The Daily Grind, in 2008.
Rising above the current crop of scenesters in their native Germany, Anima’s 2010 release, Enter The Killzone shows significant growth for the your band and is sure further their development stateside as well as around the globe.
