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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Featured Metalcore Album
The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Hyperboreus is a technical death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, active since 2021 and pushing death metal through precision-engineered technical complexity. The project channels intricate musicianship and compositional ambition.
Spawned in Katwijk aan Zee's underground, this technical death metal outfit channels dutch ferocity since 2020. Cavernous production and rhythmic complexity define their death metal approach.
Raw Black Metal project from Netherlands, forging punishing compositions since 2018. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Hyperial is a black/death metal band from Dobre Miasto, Poland, formed in 2010. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Symphonic metal band from Ostrava, Czech Republic, active since 2016. Their grand, orchestrally enhanced compositions bring sweeping symphonic arrangements to heavy metal from the Moravian-Silesian capital.
Hypermass is a melodic death metal band from Trondheim, Norway, active since 2015 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
Hypernaut is a stoner rock and metal band from Lima, Peru, formed in 2018 out of an earlier project called Bad Hombres. Drawing on the heavy riff traditions of the 1970s and 1990s, the band released their debut full-length Ozymandias in 2020, showcasing a raw, DIY-driven approach to riff-based rock that has established them within the Lima stoner and heavy psych scene.
Devastating Melodic Death Metal from Fort Worth.
Hyperomm is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Moscow, Russia, active since 2017 and blending melodic harmonies with death metal aggression. The project channels the twin-guitar traditions of Scandinavian-influenced melodeath.
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