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Black metal project from Brussels, Belgium, active since 2006. Operating from the heart of the Belgian capital, they craft dark, atmospheric black metal that reflects two decades of dedication to the genre's uncompromising aesthetic.
Herzoga is a thrash metal band from Kraków, Poland, active since 2023 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
One-man atmospheric black metal project from Vienna, Austria, established by BS in 2020. Across three numbered releases, Herztod channels solitary melancholy into layered atmospheric compositions that blur the line between depressive black metal and ambient introspection.
Heráldica de Mandrake is a doom metal band from Chile, evolving out of the earlier project Mandrake (2014–2017), whose members include vocalist and guitarist Francisco Visceral Rivera and drummer Cristian Rivera. The band has released several albums blending crushing doom with progressive and experimental elements, including "Esto también pasará" (2019) and "Nunca bastó con rezar" (2025), with their 2024 compilation "Magia Subversiva Metálica" issued on double CD by Paragon Records.
Emerging from Zwolle's underground, this progressive metal act has been forging thunderous sonic fury since 2024. Tight compositions and aggressive delivery characterize their particular approach.
Hesper Payne is a doom/death metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2006. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Named after their Inland Empire hometown, Hesperia (CA) have been trafficking in death metal since 2018 with a directness that reflects the working-class sprawl of their surroundings. Unadorned brutality from a corner of California metal that rarely gets the attention it deserves.
Hesperion is a progressive/power metal band from Irpin, Ukraine, active since 2015 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Bred in Amsterdam's underground, this act delivers grim progressive doom/post-metal since 2023. Slow, deliberate riffing and suffocating atmospheres form the foundation of their craft.
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