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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Rochester, New York's Halothane approach melodic and progressive death metal with the methodical focus the genre demands, weaving technical ambition into compositions that never lose their emotional thread. Active since 2019.
Operating from Yaroslavl, this doom/death metal project has been shaping dark sound since 2013. Drawing on classic blueprints, they deliver visceral extremity with conviction.
Halucynogen is a death/thrash metal band from Rzeszów, Poland, formed in 2008. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
A relentless doom/death metal entity from Brighton, contributing to the british underground since 2021. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
Melodic Death Metal/Metalcore act from Lahti in Finland, active since 2020 and delivering savage extremity. Technical precision and brutal aggression merge in their approach to the genre.
Indianapolis death metal outfit Hamarr came together in 2022, delivering straightforward brutality without pretense. Their name echoes the Old Norse word for hammer, and the music swings accordingly.
Hamerhaai is a death metal/hardcore band from Zwolle, Netherlands, active since 2016 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Named with sardonic humor, Dover, Pennsylvania's Hamilton Fish have been grinding out death metal and grindcore since 2019 — short, vicious songs that waste no time and take no prisoners.
Toledo, Ohio's Hammer Horde have spent over a decade building Viking-themed melodic death metal that earns its grandiosity through strong songwriting rather than spectacle. Epic in the truest sense, with sharp hooks buried inside the blast beats.
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