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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Scranton, Pennsylvania's Hallucination are death metal veterans in the truest sense — their formation date of 1969 makes them one of the stranger entries in any metal database, a pre-death metal act whose legacy stretches across decades of Pennsylvania's underground.
Rochester's Hallucination Realized play grindcore with the frantic urgency the format demands — short, explosive, and loud enough to rattle teeth. Part of a small but active upstate New York extreme underground since 2018.
Boston's Hallucivore arrived in 2025 fusing black and death metal in the tradition of the American underground — caustic, hostile, and pulling no punches. New England has a long black metal history, and this is a promising entry into it.
New York's Hallux carve out a sludge/doom sound built on weight and repetition — riffs that settle in and refuse to leave, tempos that drag the listener through the muck. Formed in 2018, location unspecified, but the music speaks clearly enough.
Halmony is a progressive metal with groove/rock influences band from Paris, France, formed in 2020. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
Atlanta's Halmos have been dragging riffs through the Georgia heat since 2012, fusing the molasses weight of sludge metal with the hazy warmth of stoner grooves. Their sound sits in the slow, crushing pocket where feedback meets sweat.
Spawned in Iași's underground, this melodic death/folk metal outfit channels romanian ferocity since 2014. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Forged in Redditch's metal community, this death/thrash metal act channels punishing aggression since 2020. Punishing compositions and guttural fury form the core of their sound.
Formed in Melbourne, Australia in 1994 as In Sect before adopting the Halo name in 1997, the band developed a confrontational sound rooted in drone, sludge, and industrial metal in the tradition of Swans and Godflesh. They relocated to London and released a series of albums including Massive Corporate Disease (1999) and Degree Zero Point of Implosion (2000) that explored themes of societal corruption and post-industrial despair with grinding sonic density. Now operating as a duo of Skye Klein and Robert Allen, Halo have been signed to Relapse Records.
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