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Proof (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Cleveland's Hammr channel the blackened speed metal of the early 1980s with a punk-soaked fury that fits perfectly in a city with a long history of no-bullshit heavy music. Active since 2018 and showing no signs of slowing.
An established heavy/speed metal voice from Turin, contributing to Italy's underground since 2019. Riff-driven fury and tight rhythmic execution define their contributions.
Heavy metal band from Novelda/Elche, Spain, active since 2012. Named after the legendary Egyptian city, they deliver epic heavy metal from the Alicante region.
Black/death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2017. Their ferocious blend of black and death metal channels the extreme end of Baden-Wurttemberg's underground metal scene.
Hanabie. are a Tokyo metalcore band formed in 2015 by high school friends, building a sound they describe as Harajuku-core from the collision of metalcore, hardcore punk, nu metal, electronicore, J-pop color, and youth-culture chaos. The lineup led by Yukina and Matsuri turned early underground momentum into international attention through releases such as Girl's Reform Manifest, Reborn Superstar!, and Bucchigiri Tokyo. Hanabie.'s music can be brutally heavy one moment and sugary, cartoon-bright, or electronically hyperactive the next, but the shifts are part of the identity rather than gimmicks. Harsh vocals, clean hooks, breakdowns, programmed textures, slap-bass flashes, and rapid genre jumps create a sense of overload that mirrors the band's visual and lyrical energy. Songs often deal with social pressure, work life, self-expression, food, playfulness, frustration, and the absurdity of modern life, making the heaviness feel both personal and wildly animated. Hanabie. matter because they bring a distinctly Japanese pop-cultural vocabulary into heavy music without softening the metalcore core. Their best songs sound like a city arcade collapsing into a mosh pit, bright enough to be playful and heavy enough to leave marks.
Hanagorik is a thrash and groove metal band from Surubim, Pernambuco, Brazil, formed in 1991 and one of the most enduring metal acts from the country's northeast. The band released a series of recordings including the demos Screaming Again (1995) and the full-length Uncivil (1997), followed by For Kids With Some Problems (2002), the latter issued during a second European tour that took them through Germany, Austria, and Belgium. They also released the EP Alceu ao Nosso Jeito (2012), a notable tribute to Pernambuco folk icon Alceu Valença reimagined in a metal context.
St. Petersburg, Florida's Hanashi explore the atmospheric and depressive ends of black metal, their dense, mournful sound a striking contrast to Florida's reputation as a death metal state. Active since 2015.
Black metal project from Mikkeli in eastern Finland, active since 2016. Their dark compositions channel the cold isolation of Finland's lakeland interior into fierce, atmospheric black metal.
Pittsburgh's Hand of Doom wrap their hardcore urgency in thrash metal riffing, a combination that makes perfect sense coming from a city that has always produced hard, no-nonsense music. Formed in 2018.
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