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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Hvati is a death metal/crust band from Reykjavík, Iceland, active since 2020 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Death/sludge metal and hardcore band from Bielefeld, Germany, active since 2015. Their crushing crossover merges the brutality of death metal with sludge heaviness and hardcore punk intensity.
Hyacinth is a death metal band from Omsk, Russia, active since 2022 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Hailing from Bacup in United Kingdom, this industrial death/doom metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 1993. Technical precision and brutal aggression merge in their approach to the genre.
Hybrid is a avant-garde/technical death metal, mathcore band from Madrid, Spain, active since 1996 and pushing death metal through precision-engineered technical complexity. The project channels intricate musicianship and compositional ambition.
Hybrid Anger is a death metal band from Grenoble, France, active since 2012 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Melodic death/groove metal band from Halle (Saale), Germany, active since 2015. Their polished sound bridges Gothenburg-style melodic death metal with modern groove metal from Saxony-Anhalt.
Hybrid Moon is a thrash/death metal band from Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain, formed in 2020. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Hybrid Sheep is a death metal/metalcore band from Arenthon, France, formed in 2014. They blend death metal's ferocity with metalcore's structural dynamics.
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