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Irrational Pull (2020)
Featured Doom Metal Album
Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Santa Cruz, California's Hunger have been serving up groove-driven thrash with a coastal menace since 2020, built on mid-paced pocket grooves and riff momentum that pulls like an undertow. Thrash by way of the Pacific.
Hungry Wölf is a black/thrash metal/punk act from Magnitogorsk, Russia, active since 2013 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Black metal project from Denmark, formed in 2025. Their name an Old Norse-inspired spelling of 'Hunger,' they represent the newest wave of Danish black metal.
Scorching Black Metal from El Paso.
Hunikel is a symphonic black metal band from Lund, Sweden, formed in 2019. They layer orchestral grandeur over fierce black metal foundations.
Black death metal act from Worcester in the West Midlands, active since 2012. Their hate-filled name broadcasts over a decade of unrelenting extremity from England's cathedral city country.
Chicago's Hunters have been roaming the stoner-sludge terrain since 2011, combining hazy psychedelic drift with the kind of low-end punishment the Windy City's heavy underground specializes in. Thick, slow, and suffocating in the best sense.
From Chinle, Arizona — deep in Navajo Nation — Hunters Moon bring melodic death metal rooted in striking geographic and cultural context since 2021. Their music carries the sweep of canyon country: expansive, powerful, and shot through with natural darkness.
Deathcore band from Wittenberg, Germany, active since 2012. Their crushing breakdowns and guttural aggression deliver modern deathcore from the historic city of the Reformation.
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