SINCE THEIR FORMATION IN 2011 AS A 2 PIECE STUDIO SIDE PROJECT ANCST HAS BEENCO-SPEARHEADING A NEW WAVE OF HARDCORE PUNK-INFUSED DEATH/BLACK METAL WITHIN THEEUROPEAN EXTREME METAL / DIY UNDERGROUND. THEY HAVE PERFECTLY COMBINED FIERCE MELODICBLACK METAL, PUNISHING DEATH METAL AND BRUTAL METALLIC HARDCORE WITH ANGRY AND CRITICALSOCIAL POLITICAL AND PERSONAL LYRICS.

WITH OVER 25 PHYSICAL RELEASES UNDER THEIR BELT ON LABELS SUCH AS LIFEFORCE RECORDS(HEAVENSHALL BURN, TRIVIUM, CALIBAN)VENDETTA RECORDS(ULTHA,WOE, THOU)SUPREME CHAOS RECORDS(UNLEASHED, GRAVE, NAPALM DEATH), AND MANY SMALLERDIY OUTLETS, ANCST HAS BEEN PRAISED BYBOTH THE INTERNATIONAL MUSIC PRESS AS WELL AS HC KIDS AND METALHEADS ALIKE.

AFTER TRANSFORMING INTO A FULL-GROWN LIVE BAND IN 2014 ANCST HAS TOURED RELENTLESSLY AND1APPEARED ON FESTIVALS SUCH AS SUMMER BREEZE, FLUFFFEST, BLOODSHED FEST, MANCHESTER PUNKFEST OR THE NEW NOISE FEST WHILE HAVING DONE ALL THE BOOKING THEMSELVES.

ANCST HAVE FULLY EMBRACED THE DIY-ETHIC AND HAS BEEN DOING THINGS ON ITS OWN FROM DAY ONE.NOT ONLY HAS MASTERMIND TOM SCHMIDT WRITTEN ALL THEIR SONGS, HE HAS ALSO RECORDED, MIXEDAND MASTERED THEM IN HIS OWN BEDROOM, CO-RELEASED THEM THROUGH HIS OWN LABEL YEHONALATAPES, DID ALL ARTWORK, HAS RUN HIS OWN PR, DISTRIBUTION AND HAS FOUNDED HIS OWN BOOKINGAGENCY