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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Madrid-based speed metal outfit active since 2013, one of the Spanish capital's most enduring metal acts. Their wall-like name matches a sound built on solid foundations of classic speed and heavy metal.
San Francisco's Hell Fire have been feeding the Bay Area's appetite for old-school speed and heavy metal since 2016, channeling the raw swagger of the genre's golden era with genuine reverence and plenty of leather. Their riffs hit like a fist to the face on a Friday night.
Out of Montpelier, Vermont, Hell Priest sprints through speed metal with a ferocious urgency that sounds entirely at odds with the pastoral Green Mountain state. Since 2019, the band has committed fully to the genre's fastest and most reckless edge.
Hellböözer is a speed/black metal project from Clermont-Ferrand, France, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hellcrash is a black/speed metal act from Santa Margherita Ligure (Genoa), Italy, active since 2021 and channeling aggressive, heavy music through its uncompromising artistic vision. The project delivers powerful metal from the Italy scene.
Rising from Belgrade in Serbia, this thrash/speed metal outfit harnesses grim power since 2006. Pit-starting riffs and furious tempos characterize their thrash approach.
Hellfuck is a speed/thrash metal band from Poland, active since 2019 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Speed/thrash/black metal band from Nurensdorf, Switzerland, formed in 2016. Their savage blend of speed, thrash, and black metal channels the most extreme end of the Swiss metal spectrum.
Hellhighspeed is a black/thrash/speed metal act from Bordeaux, France, active since 2020 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
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