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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Heavy metal band from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, Spain, active since 2004. Two decades of traditional heavy metal from the Barcelona suburbs, named after the Megadeth classic.
Black metal project from Apolda, Germany, active since 2010. Named after the Norse god of the hanged, they forge atmospheric black metal steeped in Germanic pagan mythology from the heart of Thuringia.
A shadowy black metal entity active since 2011, Hanged operates without a fixed city address, letting the music speak in cold, unlocated menace and unrelenting primitive darkness.
North Carolina's Hanged Angel surfaced in 2024, bringing a fresh set of black metal claws to the American underground with raw, unflinching material that wastes no time establishing its intent.
Hanged Ghost is a doom/death metal band from Portugal, formed in 2023. They craft crushing doom-death compositions steeped in oppressive heaviness.
Drawing equally from the murk of New Orleans sludge and the frost of black metal, Hanged Man have lurked in the Crescent City's underground since 2011, building a sound as damp and oppressive as the city itself.
Hanger Abortion is a slam/brutal death metal/deathcore band from Montpellier, France, formed in 2019. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Olympia, Washington's Hangfire launched in 2025, reaching back to classic heavy metal and hard rock traditions with a no-frills, riff-forward approach that favors feel over flash.
Springfield, Massachusetts' Hanging by a Thread blend death metal brutality and hardcore urgency into something visceral and uncompromising, active since 2012 in western New England's overlooked metal scene.
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