Annotations of an Autopsy (AOAA) are an English Death Metal band from Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. They formed in 2006 and released their debut EP, Welcome to Sludge City, in 2007. After two studio albums, Before the Throne of Infection (2008) and The Reign of Darkness (2010), the band officially announced their disbandment in 2013, then reformed in 2018 with a new EP, World of Sludge (2019). In 2021, Joe Smith-Engelhardt Alet included the album Before the Throne of Infection in his list of 30 deathcore albums from the 2000s that define the genre.