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Out of New Orleans, Haate has been channeling pure thrash aggression since 2014, bringing a mean-spirited, no-frills attack that fits right alongside the city's broader tradition of extreme music. Raw and relentless.
Black metal project from Germany, formed in 2022. Their atmospheric approach channels the cold, forested landscapes of central Europe through raw, unrelenting black metal.
Raw black metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, formed in 2023. Their lo-fi, uncompromising sound draws on the most primitive currents of Eastern European black metal tradition.
Brutal death metal band from Onda, Spain, active since 2006. Nearly two decades of punishing brutality have cemented their place in the Valencian extreme metal underground.
Habitante is a doom/death metal band from Temuco, La Araucanía, Chile, formed around frontman and guitarist Carlos Aravena, who also handles production duties independently. Their sound fuses the atmosphere of European doom metal with the aggression of 1990s American death metal, and their releases include the album "Perseverancia Resiliencia" (2020) and the follow-up "Condena Funebre" (2022).
San Diego's Habitual Defilement occupies the brutal end of the death metal spectrum, fusing slam's rhythmic brutality with the relentless speed and gore fixation of brutal death metal since 2012. Unambiguously punishing.
Pittsburgh's Habitual Sins has been carrying the torch for traditional heavy metal in western Pennsylvania since 2017, drawing on the genre's classic power and melodic directness while planting firmly in the city's blue-collar metal tradition.
Habitus is a sludge/post-metal band from Belgrade, Serbia, formed in 2012. They blend crushing sludge with post-metal's atmospheric expansiveness.
Marietta, Georgia's Haborym traffics in the raw intersection of black and death metal, bearing the name of a duke of hell and emerging in 2024 with a fittingly malevolent sound. Expect no mercy and no polish.
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