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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Hexe Maledicta is a raw black metal project from Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, active since 2024 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Black metal project from Belarus, formed in 2024. Their occult-tinged sound carries forward the traditions of Eastern European black metal with a dark, ritualistic intensity.
Death thrash metal act from Nottingham, active since 2009. Over fifteen years of unrelenting aggression from the East Midlands have forged a reliable force of thrash-infused death metal.
Paris-based death metal act active since 2019. Their hallucinatory name hints at compositions that explore death metal's more disorienting corners from the French capital's thriving underground.
Punishing black metal from Luxembourg, contributing to the national scene since 2023. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Hailing from Paris in France, this black/death metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2018. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Black Metal Punk from South Tejas conceived by Noelia Garza. Signed to Hells Headbangers Records. Debut album The Ancient Gaping Mouth released 2025.
Los Angeles' Hexen bring melodic sophistication and progressive ambition to the thrash template, threading complex arrangements through otherwise hard-hitting material. Their approach reflects the technical tradition of the LA metal scene while reaching toward something more compositionally adventurous.
Hexen Blood is a black metal project from Petrozavodsk, Russia, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
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