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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Hatefrost is a black metal project from Poland, active since 2009 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Poland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hateful Tomorrow is a depressive black metal band from Oryol, Russia, formed in 2010. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Raleigh's Hateful Transgression drag the blackened and the brutal into the same pit, fusing the ice-cold atmospherics of black metal with the punishing low-end density of brutal death into something genuinely venomous.
Black metal band from Malaga, Spain, formed in 2019. Their cold, ferocious sound creates a stark contrast with the sun-drenched Mediterranean setting of the Costa del Sol.
Hatenwar is a black metal project from Bytów, Poland, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Poland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
An uncompromising black metal project from Klepp, active since 2019. Atmospheric depth and feral intensity coexist in their compositions.
Indianapolis's Hatesong fuse black metal's cold malevolence with the scabrous energy of crust punk, resulting in a sound that's as politically charged as it is sonically punishing.
HateSower is a technical death/black metal band from Caserta, Italy, formed in 2025. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Emerging from Oulu's underground, this black metal act has been forging menacing sonic fury since 2018. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
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