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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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Hemothorax is a death metal band from Örebro, Sweden, active since 2015 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Bred in Bratislava's underground, this act delivers brutal death metal/grindcore since 2015. Their sound channels the genre's most crushing impulses through thunderous riffs.
Brooklyn's Hemzeodysnexia arrived in 2022 with a mouthful of a name and a brutal death metal sound to match — dense, merciless, and technically ferocious, staking out their corner of New York's underground with immediate ferocity.
Metalcore act from Amiens in northern France, active since 2023. Their mythological name referencing the sea monster Scylla adds epic scope to modern metalcore from the Picardy region.
Henriëtta is a death/thrash metal band from Gouda, the Netherlands, formed in 2015. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Henry Kane is a crust punk/death metal/grindcore band from Sundsvall, Sweden, active since 2017 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Heparin is a groove/thrash/death metal band from Poznań, Poland, formed in 2023. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Blackened death metal act from Rennes in Brittany, active since 2023. Their Troma horror-inspired name signals a visceral approach to extreme metal from France's northwestern underground.
Burlington, Vermont's Heralds of Galaktus bring cosmic-scale destruction down to a very terrestrial grindcore and death metal assault since 2018, naming themselves after a Marvel titan of annihilation while sounding like they could cause some themselves. Short, sharp, and obliterating.
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