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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Emerging from Pieksämäki's underground, this death/thrash metal act has been forging thunderous sonic fury since 2010. Punishing compositions and guttural fury form the core of their sound.
HDK is a progressive death/thrash/groove metal band from Reuver, the Netherlands, formed in 2013. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Phoenix death metal act He Who Binds Himself have been trafficking in uncompromising extremity since 2014, rooted in the death metal fundamentals of brutal riffing, down-tuned punishment, and merciless drumming. Their desert-city origins give their aggression a parched, relentless quality.
Spokane's He Who Walks Behind the Rows lift their name from Stephen King's rural horror mythology and apply it to a black/death metal sound steeped in malevolence and ritual menace. Formed in 2021, they belong to the Pacific Northwest's tradition of atmospheric, darkly literary extreme metal.
Head Cleaner is a death metal/grindcore band from Thessaloniki, Greece, active since 2003 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Puyallup, Washington's Head Stabber are a fresh-faced death metal outfit formed in 2024, arriving with the blunt directness their name implies and a Pacific Northwest underground pedigree built on aggression rather than atmosphere. Still early in their arc, they show a clear commitment to old-school extremity.
Head Takers is a groove/thrash/death metal band from La Queue-lez-Yvelines, France, formed in 2012. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Headache is a death metal/grindcore band from Pietarsaari, Finland, active since 2010 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Headacheman is a death metal band from Novorossiysk (early)/Novorossiysk/Krasnodar (later), Russia, active since 2016 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
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