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Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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HellXHere is a heavy metal band from Cannes, France, active since 2018 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Death metal act from Rouen in Normandy, active since 2012. Their controlling name matches a sound that commands attention through crushing death metal from northern France's historic capital.
Los Angeles-based Helmet carry the legacy of one of alternative metal's most rhythmically sophisticated bands — a unit whose chugging, off-kilter groove has influenced countless acts across heavy music since the early 1990s. Their locked-in, hypnotic attack remains as distinctive as ever.
Florida's Helms Deep arrived in 2023 armed with the kind of heavy and power metal that prizes epic momentum over subtlety — loud, anthemic, and unapologetically bombastic in the tradition of the genre's great fortress-builders. A band that clearly enjoys swinging for the battlements.
Helvede is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Varese, Italy, active since 2024 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Thrash metal outfit from Devon in southwest England, active since 2012. Their machine-like name matches precise, mechanized thrash compositions honed over a decade in the West Country underground.
Helvetets Port is a heavy metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, active since 2024 and forging classic heavy metal with conviction and power. The project channels the timeless spirit of traditional metal riffage.
Forged in Bucharest's metal community, this heavy/thrash metal, nu-metal act channels searing aggression since 2022. Their compositions deliver the genre's essential fury with technical skill.
Heavy metal band from Crevillent, Spain, formed in 2025. The newest traditional heavy metal voice from the Alicante province of the Valencian Community.
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