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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Indianapolis death metal outfit Hamarr came together in 2022, delivering straightforward brutality without pretense. Their name echoes the Old Norse word for hammer, and the music swings accordingly.
Belgian post-black metal band from Aarschot, active since 2004, with a catalog including What You Make Of It and Paintings on the Wall. Their long-running project bridges the gap between black metal intensity and post-rock expansiveness.
Hamhleypa is a atmospheric black metal band from Kimry, Russia, formed in 2012. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Black metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2016. Named after the Old Norse concept of luck and fortune, they forge atmospheric black metal from Germany's capital city.
Drawing from Hämeenlinna/Janakkala's metal heritage, this black/thrash metal, jazz fusion outfit channels fierce energy since 2021. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Black metal project from Norderstedt in northern Germany, active since 2010. Their sound reflects the bleak, windswept character of the Schleswig-Holstein flatlands through raw black metal.
Seattle's Hammer Strike emerged in 2026 drawing equally from death, thrash, and black metal — a Pacific Northwest act with no interest in picking just one lane of extreme metal aggression.
Hammergoat is a bestial death/black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, featuring members associated with the Brazilian underground acts Evil and Dethroned Christ. The band released their debut full-length, Regeneration Through Depopulation..., in 2010 on Hammer of Damnation, a 30-minute assault drawing comparisons to Blasphemy and Hellhammer and including a cover of Sarcófago's "The Black Vomit." They also appeared on a split cassette with Swiss act Dakhma, released in 2018.
Brooklyn's Hammerhoid have been gleefully ransacking the intersection of speed, thrash, and black metal since 2014, their New York City chaos lending the music an urgency that straight-up retro acts rarely achieve.
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