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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Nashville's Halo Theory launched in 2023 blending the fist-pumping lift of power metal with the neck-snapping drive of groove, a combination that sounds right at home in a city that takes its heavy music seriously.
Madrid-based band formed in 2016, evolving from heavy metal origins into groove and nu-metal territory. Their stylistic evolution reflects the changing landscape of Spanish heavy music across multiple eras.
Kansas City's Hammerhedd started as a progressive thrash and groove act in 2018 before letting progressive rock sensibilities creep in over time, documenting a genuinely curious musical evolution across their catalog.
Fremont, California's Hammershot find the sweet spot where groove metal's mid-paced stomp meets thrash metal's angular attack, delivering Bay Area heaviness with more neck-snap than most since 2013.
Hanagorik is a thrash and groove metal band from Surubim, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 1991 and one of the most enduring metal acts from the country's northeast. The band released a series of recordings including the demos Screaming Again (1995) and the full-length Uncivil (1997), followed by For Kids With Some Problems (2002), the latter issued during a second European tour that took them through Germany, Austria, and Belgium. They also released the EP Alceu ao Nosso Jeito (2012), a notable tribute to Pernambuco folk icon Alceu Valença reimagined in a metal context.
Black metal project from Mikkeli in eastern Finland, active since 2016. Their dark compositions channel the cold isolation of Finland's lakeland interior into fierce, atmospheric black metal.
Pittsburgh's Hand of Doom wrap their hardcore urgency in thrash metal riffing, a combination that makes perfect sense coming from a city that has always produced hard, no-nonsense music. Formed in 2018.
Remington, Virginia's Hand over Fist have been delivering groove and thrash metal from rural Virginia since 2017 — muscular, riff-forward music built for live stages and the kind of crowd that shows up ready to move.
Groove metal outfit from Renton, Washington, Hands of Deliverance have been pounding out heavy, riff-driven material since 2017, blending mid-tempo muscle with a taste for the mechanical and menacing.
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