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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Liars & Thieves (2024)
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Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Death/groove metal band from Eibar, Spain, formed in 2020. Their heavy, rhythm-driven death metal brings groove-laden intensity from the industrial Basque heartland.
Death metal band from Wurzburg, Germany, formed in 2024. Their fresh, ferocious sound brings new death metal energy to the Franconian underground.
Hellwrath is a death/thrash metal band from Florence/Prato, Italy, formed in 2021. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Death/thrash metal band from Esens, Germany, formed in 2020. Their aggressive crossover channels the full fury of extreme metal from the North Sea coast of East Frisia.
Death/black metal band from Nicosia, Cyprus, formed in 2017, self-described as 'yet another symptom of our collective decadence.' Their album The Fall of Paradigms delivers intellectually grounded blackened death metal with philosophical themes quoting Oswald Spengler.
Helotry is a death metal band from Halmstad, Sweden, active since 2022 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Helpless Agony arrived in 2024 with death metal forged in the blue-collar grit of central PA — compact, brutal, and already showing a confidence beyond their young tenure. A band with no interest in easing anyone in gently.
Helshare is a blackened death metal band from Reykjavík, Iceland, formed in 2015. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Helslave is a melodic death metal band from Rome, Italy, active since 2015 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
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