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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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Atlantic City's Hammer Fight bring a barroom swagger to their heavy metal and thrash, with a hard rock edge that makes every track feel like it was written for a sticky-floored venue at last call. They've been at it since 2011.
Toledo, Ohio's Hammer Horde have spent over a decade building Viking-themed melodic death metal that earns its grandiosity through strong songwriting rather than spectacle. Epic in the truest sense, with sharp hooks buried inside the blast beats.
Heavy/power metal band from Kaiserslautern, Germany, formed in 2015 and signed to Napalm Records. Their album Konig und Kaiser, mixed by Jacob Hansen, delivers theatrical power metal built on medieval and mythological themes across thirteen tracks of epic, hammer-wielding grandeur.
Thrash metal band from Halle (Saale), Germany, with roots stretching back to 1989. As one of the oldest thrash acts in eastern Germany, they have delivered decades of relentless, neck-snapping thrash from the former East German underground.
Hammer of Dawn is a melodic thrash metal band from Amsterdam, Netherlands, active since 2021 and delivering aggressive, riff-driven thrash with relentless intensity. The project channels the speed and fury of the genre.
Phoenix's Hammer of Doubt are one of the newest entries in Arizona's thrash scene, formed in 2025 and already churning out the desert-dry, sun-baked riffing that makes the Southwest a quietly formidable region for the genre.
Death metal band from Brilon, Germany, active since 2010. Their gore-soaked approach to death metal channels brutal, unflinching heaviness from the wooded hills of the Sauerland region.
Emerging from Espoo's underground, this melodic death metal act has been forging grim sonic fury since 2016. Technical precision and brutal aggression merge in their approach to the genre.
Heavy metal outfit from Strasbourg in Alsace, active since 2016. Their enigmatic name wraps classic heavy metal traditions in a veil of intrigue from the Franco-Germanic borderlands.
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