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Formed in Mentor, Ohio in 1993, Hemdale were a grind-gore band whose abrasive extremity and relentless live performances earned them a significant underground following before a 1997 split. The band's 1996 split release with Exhumed, In the Name of Gore, remains a key document of the era, and their network extended through drummer Craig Rowe's Visceral Productions, which played a role in the early careers of Nile, Exhumed, and Dying Fetus. Hemdale reformed in 2013 with vocalist and guitarist Matthew Rositano as the sole original member.
Breton black metal project from Rennes, active since 2010. Their atmospheric compositions draw on the Celtic mysticism and maritime climate of Brittany's capital city.
An uncompromising psychedelic death metal project from Bratislava, active since 2025. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Hemicorporectomy is a slam/brutal death metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, formed in 2020. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2022. Their crushing approach delivers unrelenting death metal from the Spanish capital's extreme music underground.
Death metal/hardcore band from Denmark, active since 2016. Their surgical approach to extreme music merges death metal brutality with hardcore punk intensity.
An established melodic death metal/metalcore voice from Sremska Mitrovica, contributing to Serbia's underground since 2025. Rooted in old-school traditions, their compositions deliver unrelenting heaviness.
Death metal/grindcore band from Biscay, Spain, formed in 2024. Their ferocious blast of brutality and grind erupts from the Basque Country's Atlantic coast.
Hemorrhage is a black/death metal band from Volta Redonda, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2012. The trio of Bruni Fidelis on vocals and bass, Jefferson Ferreira on guitar, and Robson Saboth on drums released the five-track EP "The Sinister Path (Formulas do Negative Communication)" in 2018, recorded at Total Produções in Volta Redonda.
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