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Fort Worth's Herniated have been delivering brutal death metal since 2016 with the industrial-grade aggression you'd expect from Texas's hard-working metal underground. Dense, punishing, and unapologetically extreme.
Heavy metal outfit from Glasgow, active since 2015. Their sound channels classic heavy metal traditions through the raw energy of Scotland's vibrant music scene.
Death/doom/thrash metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2020. Their genre-spanning approach merges the crushing weight of doom, the brutality of death metal, and the speed of thrash.
San Francisco's Herpes lean into D-beat and goregrind with the kind of self-aware punk nihilism that the Bay Area's underground has always nurtured since their 2010 formation. The name tells you everything about their attitude toward conventional good taste.
Heruvim is a death metal band from Odesa, Ukraine, active since 2021 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
One-man black/death project by Brungard, risen from the ashes of Howls of Ebb. Released on the prestigious I, Voidhanger Records.
Hesper Payne is a doom/death metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2006. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Named after their Inland Empire hometown, Hesperia (CA) have been trafficking in death metal since 2018 with a directness that reflects the working-class sprawl of their surroundings. Unadorned brutality from a corner of California metal that rarely gets the attention it deserves.
Named for Hawthorne's condemned outsider, Kansas City's Hester Prynne channel that defiant energy into a brutal blend of deathcore and straight-ahead death metal. Active since 2009, they pair pulverizing low-end chug with genuine death metal menace.
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