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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Emerging from Žilina's underground, this heavy metal act has been forging scorching sonic fury since 2018. Anthemic choruses and driving rhythms characterize their particular brand of metal.
Heosphoros is an archaic black metal band from Córdoba, Argentina, formed in 2022 and drawing comparisons to Greek acts like Rotting Christ, Varathron, and Necromantia. Their debut demo "Aster Obscuration" (January 3, 2022) — a four-track cassette release — was picked up for physical distribution by labels including Fallen Temple, Warhemic Productions, and Nuclear Winter Records.
Heparin is a groove/thrash/death metal band from Poznań, Poland, formed in 2023. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Boston's Hepatagua have been plying their trade in sludge metal since 2013, bringing the Northeast's particular strain of urban heaviness to a genre that thrives on misery and low tuning. Dense, slow, and corrosive in all the right ways.
Blackened death metal act from Rennes in Brittany, active since 2023. Their Troma horror-inspired name signals a visceral approach to extreme metal from France's northwestern underground.
Greensboro, North Carolina's Hephystus have been crafting progressive metal since 2009, named for the blacksmith god and built with a similar dedication to forging complex structures from raw heavy metal. Their work rewards patience and repeated listens.
Black metal band from Mainz, Germany, formed in 2022. Named after the seven-pointed occult symbol, they forge ritualistic black metal from the Rhineland-Palatinate capital.
Heptah is a progressive metal band from Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2012. The quintet — featuring vocalists Rhads Clemente and Ricardo Corsi, guitarists Corsi and Samuel Zechin, bassist Robson Baroli, and drummer Raphael Jorge — released their debut album "Master of Delusion" in September 2012, an 11-track record combining heavy riffs with melodic progressive arrangements.
Rising from Thessaloniki in Greece, this black metal outfit harnesses volatile power since 2016. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
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