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Hylidae is a death and thrash metal band from Rio Branco, Acre — one of Brazil's most geographically remote metal acts — whose band name is drawn from an indigenous Amazonian ritual associated with hunting and survival. The band released their debut full-length Promiscuous World (2012), recording it in Curitiba due to the lack of suitable studios in Acre, and followed it with the second album Unbreakable Curse (2021), mixed and mastered in Fortaleza. Over their career they have shared stages with Sepultura, Nervochaos, and Demonical.
Hyling is a black metal project from Verona, Italy, active since 2003 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Black metal project from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2024. Their dark sound emerges from the Saxon cultural capital as one of the newest voices in the Leipzig black metal scene.
Hylskog is a black metal project from Italy, active since 2019 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hymen Decency is a brutal death metal band from Kirov, Russia, formed in 2020. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Bred in Oirlo's underground, this act delivers menacing goregrind since 2007. Heavy, downtuned riffing and relentless percussion drive their compositions.
Black metal project from Germany, active since 2007. Named after the Norse frost giant, they have delivered nearly two decades of cold, uncompromising black metal.
Hymn is a black metal project from Livorno, Italy, active since 2014 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Italy black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Doom stoner metal project from Portsmouth on the English south coast, active since 2024. Their tongue-in-cheek honorific name channels the weight of doom with stoner grooves from the naval port city.
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