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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Death metal band from Brilon, Germany, active since 2010. Their gore-soaked approach to death metal channels brutal, unflinching heaviness from the wooded hills of the Sauerland region.
Emerging from Espoo's underground, this melodic death metal act has been forging grim sonic fury since 2016. Technical precision and brutal aggression merge in their approach to the genre.
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.
Thrash/death metal band from Grevenbroich, Germany, active since 2013. Their punishing crossover of thrash and death metal delivers relentless aggression from the Rhineland industrial heartland.
Hammerthrone is a crushing force of old-school-influenced death metal from Austin, TX. Formed in 2025, the band's foundations were built around the punishing Swedish HM-2 chainsaw riffs of the 90s.
Vocals: TJ Lewis IV
Guitar: Phil King
Bass: Luke Frieb
Drums: Dave Revere
Black/death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2017. Their ferocious blend of black and death metal channels the extreme end of Baden-Wurttemberg's underground metal scene.
Pittsburgh's Hand of Doom wrap their hardcore urgency in thrash metal riffing, a combination that makes perfect sense coming from a city that has always produced hard, no-nonsense music. Formed in 2018.
Hand of the Host is a death metal band from Birmingham, United Kingdom, active since 2026 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Fayetteville, Arkansas's Hand of the Wicked combine melodic black and death metal with the kind of conviction that only comes from building something serious in a place where the scene doesn't hand anything to you. Formed in 2023.
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