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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Hexentod is a raw black metal project from Ukraine, active since 2022 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.
An established black metal voice from Bari, contributing to Italy's underground since 2022. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Hexenvomit is a raw black metal project from Saint Petersburg, Russia, active since 2018 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 Hof, Germany, active since 2010. Their name meaning 'Witch Forest,' they craft atmospheric black metal steeped in Germanic occult folklore from Upper Franconia.
Hexenwolf is a black/death metal band from Avesta, Sweden, formed in 2010. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
A furious black/folk metal entity from Szeged, contributing to the hungarian underground since 2004. Their compositions evoke desolate landscapes through raw, uncompromising aggression.
Doom/sludge metal band from Dortmund, Germany, active since 2015. Their crushing, feedback-laden sound delivers the suffocating weight of doom and sludge from the Ruhr Valley.
Hexerei is a black metal project from Finland, active since 2018 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Finland black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hexerei is a raw black/death metal project from Valdivia, Chile, formed in early 2018 under the banner Kult der Hexerei by Spectre of the Blood Moon. The band released a self-produced demo in February 2019, followed by the split "Hexed Winds of Darkness" (2020) through Infernal Death Productions, and a 2024 career-spanning compilation on Iron, Blood and Death Corporation; their sound draws comparisons to Archgoat and Beherit, built around high-speed blasting, tremolo riffing, and occult, anti-Christian themes.
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