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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Power metal band from Puerto Lumbreras, Spain, formed in 2018. Their anthemic sound delivers soaring power metal from the arid landscapes of Murcia.
Hecadoth is a black metal project from Łódź, Poland, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Poland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Blackened death/gothic metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2020. Their distinctive fusion merges the brutality of blackened death metal with the dark romance of gothic metal.
Hecate is a black metal project from Tours, France, active since 2011 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hecate is a black metal band from Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil, whose lineup features vocalist Lord Thanatos, guitarist Pagan Priestess, drummer Daymon, and bassist Misantropico Herege. The band released the full-length album Odes ao Oculto in 2003 and the EP V.I.T.R.I.O.L. in 2014, with lyrical themes centered on paganism, occultism, and satanism. They are signed to Sphera Noctis Records.
Hecate Enthroned is a symphonic/melodic black metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2019. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Hecate Pagan is a black metal band from Mexico City, Mexico, formed in 2018 and signed to Silentium in Foresta Records. Their themes center on the goddess Hecate, paganism, witchcraft, and darkness, with the 2023 full-length The All Seeing Eye as their debut album.
Hecates is a melodic death metal band from Pordenone, Italy, active since 2015 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Milwaukee's Hecatomb emerged in 2020 channeling melodic death metal's twin-guitar attack and structural sweep into well-crafted material that sits comfortably within the Scandinavian-influenced wing of the American death metal tradition. Their approach favors melody without ever losing the genre's essential brutality.
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