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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Havenless is a progressive death metal band from Toulouse, France, active since 2012 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Madison, Wisconsin's Haver blend melodic death metal's twin-guitar harmonies with the punishing weight of straightforward death metal, carving out a sound that's as hook-driven as it is brutal. Active since 2023, they're a young act already showing a clear command of the melodeath idiom.
Menacing melodic death/groove/thrash metal emanating from Bengtsfors, active since 2014 within Sweden's metal scene. Heavy, downtuned riffing and relentless percussion drive their compositions.
Rancho Cucamonga's Havocxx fuse the melodic leads of Gothenburg death metal with the chug and breakdown vocabulary of metalcore, a hybrid approach that's been their calling card since 2017. The tension between the two styles gives their Inland Empire take on the crossover sound its kinetic edge.
Denver thrash revivalists Havok emerged in 2009 and quickly became one of the most visible standard-bearers of the genre's 21st-century resurgence, releasing a string of tight, technically sharp records that honored the Bay Area blueprint without simply imitating it. Their live reputation is formidable.
Hawthorn is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Ciechanów, Poland, formed in 2012. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Haxan is a death metal band from France, active since 2020 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Jacksonville's Haxprocess represent the progressive wing of extreme metal, threading death metal brutality and thrash aggression through complex, technically demanding arrangements that betray a taste for conceptual ambition. For a band formed in 2022, they've arrived with a surprisingly developed sound.
Hazael is a death metal (early/later); doom/gothic metal (mid) band from Płock, Poland, formed in 2020. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
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