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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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Hordous is a black metal project from Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France, active since 2015 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hore is a black/thrash metal act from Białystok, Poland, active since 2006 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Horgr is a black metal project from Lyon, France, active since 2016 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Horizon Ablaze is a black/death metal band from Kristiansand, Norway, formed in 2018. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Heavy metal outfit from the eastern Finnish city of Kuopio, active since 2012. Over a decade of work from the Savo region has produced reliable, riff-driven heavy metal with Finnish determination.
Operating from Kaliningrad, this melodic black metal project has been shaping scorching sound since 2025. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Horn Project is a melodic black metal band from Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy, formed in 2021. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Death metal project from Kuopio in eastern Finland, newly formed in 2025. Their religiously-charged name adds an ironic twist to crushing death metal from the Finnish lakeland.
Hailing from Turku in Finland, this black metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2020. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
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