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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Hrungnir is a melodic black/death metal band from Mariestad, Sweden, formed in 2013. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Hrvatski Paladin is a raw black metal/dungeon synth project from Zagreb, Croatia, active since 2024 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Hryggur is a raw black metal/ambient project from Aberdeen, United Kingdom, active since 2020 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Liverpool-based black metal project active since 2010. Their subterranean name suits dark, cavernous compositions mined from over a decade in the Merseyside underground.
Named for the Norse corpse-swallowing eagle at the edge of the world, Concord, New Hampshire's Hræsvelgr have been playing black metal steeped in heathen mythology since 2016. Their sound is as austere and uncompromising as the name suggests.
HssH is a atmospheric black metal with industrial elements band from Paris, France, formed in 2013. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Buffalo, New York's Hubris channel a different kind of pride — the black metal variety — since 2015, operating with the bleak ferocity that the industrial ruins of western New York seem to inspire. Cold and unrelenting.
Melodic black/death metal band from Heist-op-den-Berg, Belgium, formed in 2024. Their debut album Into The Abyss delivers eight tracks spanning nearly forty minutes of extreme metal that weaves between black, death, and thrash metal intensity.
Black metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2023. Their sound channels cold Scandinavian black metal traditions with a fresh, modern intensity from the Danish capital.
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