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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Handsaw is a technical brutal death metal band from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, formed in 2011 and currently active after a hiatus. The band released their debut full-length album Ogre in June 2015, recorded at Kolera Studio in Rio de Janeiro, showcasing a combination of technical precision and brutal aggression. Their lineup includes Edson Baros on vocals, Gabriel Gomes and Leandro Rodrigo on guitars, Romulo Estige on drums, and Ricardo Amorim on bass.
Don't let the name fool you — Dyer, Indiana's Handsome Prick play brutally earnest grindcore and death metal, delivering short blasts of punishing noise with zero irony since 2016.
Thrash metal/hardcore band from Rostock, Germany, active since 2013. Their aggressive crossover brings the raw energy of hardcore punk to thrash metal's speed-driven assault from the Baltic coast.
Formed in London, England in 2007, Hang the Bastard operated at the intersection of sludge metal, doom, and metalcore, releasing Hellfire Reign (2010) and Sex in the Seventh Circle (2014) on Century Media Records. Their churning, downtuned riffs and hardcore-inflected aggression placed them alongside the British heavy underground scene of the late 2000s. The band disbanded in 2016 following a farewell performance at the Damnation Festival but subsequently reunited.
Drawing from Norrköping's metal heritage, this heavy/thrash metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2015. Drawing on both Bay Area and Teutonic thrash, they deliver relentless aggression.
Hang the Traitor is a death/thrash metal band from Lisbon, Portugal, formed in 2013. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Rooted in the gritty New Haven scene, Hang Your Cross weave together hardcore aggression, crawling sludge, and the expansive textures of post-metal into a dense, suffocating sound since 2017.
Hanga is a sludge metal/crust punk band from Bethmale, France, active since 2014 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
Hangar is a progressive power metal band from Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, originally formed in 1997 by drummer Aquiles Priester, who later became known for his work with Angra. The band released six studio albums, including Last Time (1999), Inside Your Soul (2001), and The Reason of Your Conviction (2007), building a dedicated following in the Brazilian metal scene. Keyboardist Fábio Laguna joined in 2002 and became a core compositional force, and the band reunited in 2025 after an extended hiatus.
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