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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Operating out of Broward County, Florida since 2012, Hanging by a Thread... trade in atmospheric black metal that sprawls and suffocates — desolate, hazy, and unshakeably bleak.
Chicago's Hanging Death have carried the flame of traditional heavy metal since 2017, a city better known for brutality but capable of spawning bands with a genuine reverence for the genre's foundational power.
Toledo's Hanging Fortress have been carving out death metal material since 2018, bringing the grim industrial character of a rust belt Ohio city to straightforward, skull-splitting extremity.
San Diego's Hanging Garden have cultivated a strain of depressive black metal since 2013 that leans heavily into isolation and despair, letting long, suffocating passages take root in the mind.
Yonkers, New York's Hanging Garden charts a different course — progressive death metal with ambition and technical edge, building compositional complexity into the brutality since 2013.
A recent arrival from Fargo, North Dakota, Hanging Wound formed in 2023 and plant their flag firmly in death metal territory, adding another grim chapter to Fargo's quietly active extreme metal scene.
Formed in Crosne, Essonne, France in 2005 out of the local hardcore punk scene, Hangman's Chair began with a stoner and sludge-oriented approach before finding their defining identity in a bleaker, more post-punk influenced doom with the 2012 trilogy opener Hope /// Dope /// Rope. Albums including Banlieue triste (2018) on Spinefarm Records and A Loner (2022) on Nuclear Blast deepened their absorption of cold wave, shoegaze, and new wave into a desolate heavy framework. Their catalog is one of the most distinctive in European doom metal, rooted in Parisian suburban alienation.
Thrash metal/hardcore band from Jena, Germany, active since 2003. With over two decades of experience, they are veterans of the Thuringian crossover scene, merging thrash velocity with hardcore intensity.
Painesville, Ohio's Hangnail have been grinding away since 1998, their thrash and grindcore roots keeping them lean and mean across nearly three decades of relentless, no-frills extremity.
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