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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Stoner Metal Album
Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Death metal band from Molins de Rei, Spain, formed in 2021. Their uncompromising approach delivers crushing death metal from the Barcelona metropolitan area.
Portland's Hands of Thieves cast a wide net across black, death, and doom metal, conjuring something genuinely dark and multifaceted since forming in 2016 in the Pacific Northwest underground.
Fresno's Hands That Kill arrived in 2025 swinging a chaotic three-way hybrid of death metal, thrash, and grindcore — short, fast, and built to draw blood from the first second.
Don't let the name fool you — Dyer, Indiana's Handsome Prick play brutally earnest grindcore and death metal, delivering short blasts of punishing noise with zero irony since 2016.
Hang the Traitor is a death/thrash metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2013. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
A shadowy black metal entity active since 2011, Hanged operates without a fixed city address, letting the music speak in cold, unlocated menace and unrelenting primitive darkness.
Hanged Ghost is a doom/death metal band from Portugal, formed in 2023. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Hanger Abortion is a slam/brutal death metal/deathcore band from Montpellier, France, formed in 2019. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Springfield, Massachusetts' Hanging by a Thread blend death metal brutality and hardcore urgency into something visceral and uncompromising, active since 2012 in western New England's overlooked metal scene.
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