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Agamemnon (2025)
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This Godless Endeavor (2005)
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Toledo's Hanging Fortress have been carving out death metal material since 2018, bringing the grim industrial character of a rust belt Ohio city to straightforward, skull-splitting extremity.
San Diego's Hanging Garden have cultivated a strain of depressive black metal since 2013 that leans heavily into isolation and despair, letting long, suffocating passages take root in the mind.
Yonkers, New York's Hanging Garden charts a different course — progressive death metal with ambition and technical edge, building compositional complexity into the brutality since 2013.
A recent arrival from Fargo, North Dakota, Hanging Wound formed in 2023 and plant their flag firmly in death metal territory, adding another grim chapter to Fargo's quietly active extreme metal scene.
New Orleans' Hangnail have dealt in death metal and grindcore since 1998, pairing the city's swampy, heavy undercurrent with the kind of blasting ferocity that demands short, vicious songs.
Progressive technical death metal project of renowned drummer Hannes Grossmann from Nuremberg, Germany, known for his work with Necrophagist, Obscura, and Blotted Science. His solo album Echoes Of Eternity pays homage to his former bands while showcasing his compositional prowess, recorded entirely at his MordorSounds studio.
Electronic groove/melodic death metal and synthwave project from Germany, formed in 2018. Their audacious fusion of electronic dance music elements with death metal heaviness creates a uniquely futuristic take on extreme metal.
South Florida's Hanus emerged from Margate in 2024, bringing a death-thrash attack steeped in the Sunshine State's long tradition of extreme metal — fast, angry, and technically sharp.
Born in the devastating underground of Kerava, this death/thrash metal/hardcore act has delivered unflinching intensity since 2018. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
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