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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Black metal project from Ypres, Belgium, formed in 2022. Drawing from the shadows of the historic Flemish city, they craft raw, atmospheric black metal steeped in northern European darkness.
Hulex is a power metal band from Lycksele, Sweden, active since 2013 and delivering soaring melodies, epic arrangements, and powerful vocals. The project channels the grandeur and ambition of power metal.
Hulkoff is a heavy/power metal (early); groove/folk metal (later) band from Övertorneå, Sweden, formed in 2017. They blend power metal's anthemic energy with folk metal traditions.
Hulla is a goregrind act from Uzhhorod, Ukraine, active since 2021 and delivering chaotic, ferocious bursts of extreme music at breakneck velocity. The project channels the genre's most frenzied and violent impulses.
Melodic heavy metal band from San Fernando, Spain, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of melodically rich heavy metal from the island city in the Bay of Cadiz.
Huma is an alternative post-metal band from Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, with a lineup that includes vocalists, dual guitars, bass, drums, and synth. Their 2025 debut album Afronta, recorded at EMUFRN and Black Hole Studio in Natal, blends doom and post-metal textures with Portuguese-language lyrics and features a Lana Del Rey cover alongside five originals.
Death metal band from Silkeborg, Denmark, active since 2012. Their brutal approach channels the legacy of Scandinavian death metal from the Danish lake district.
Human Abomination is a brutal death metal band from Goudargues, France, formed in 2018. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Human Abomination is a death metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, active since 2018. The band released their Promo 2018 in July of that year, featuring the tracks "Joys of Mass Murder" and "Process of a Methodical Extermination", and followed it with a subsequent full recording titled Ressurgindo Pós Caos documented in the Metal Archives.
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