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HumanHate is a death metal band from Palermo, Italy, active since 2019 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Humaniac is a technical/progressive death metal/deathcore band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2012 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
New Jersey's Humanicide blend black metal's cold fury with the d-beat pulse and social rage of crust punk, forging something that sounds like civilization finally getting what it deserves. A project as hostile to comfort as the name implies.
Humanicidio was a thrash and heavy metal band from Rosario, Argentina, whose lineup included David Sanchez on guitar and vocals, Nicolás Sanchez on lead guitar, Franco Mena on bass, and Diego Forteaga on drums. The band released a four-track demo in May 2016 and a self-titled album in 2018 before splitting up.
Humanimal is a melodic power metal band from Buenos Aires, Argentina, originally founded in 1992 with vocalist Juan Soto and core guitarists Pablo G. Soler and Mariano Mazzei, and later reformed. The band released the full-length album "El camino de los sabios" in 2002 and contributed tracks to multiple Argentine metal tributes, including "Maténlos a todos — Tributo argentino a Metallica" in 2003.
Progressive death/thrash metal and hardcore band from Marburg, Germany, formed in 2023. Their technically ambitious crossover merges progressive complexity with extreme metal intensity from the university city on the Lahn.
Black metal band from Leipzig, Germany, active since 2016. Their name meaning 'Humanity Is An Error,' they channel misanthropic black metal philosophy from the Saxon cultural capital.
Doom metal project from London, active since 2022. Their glacial compositions channel the weight and darkness of classic doom from the British capital's underground.
Death metal band from Lieferinge, Belgium, active since 2013. Their uncompromising approach to the genre delivers the kind of punishing, no-frills death metal that thrives in the Belgian extreme music underground.
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