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Undercover Scumbag (2018)
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A Stare Bound in Stone (2018)
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Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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Thrash metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2020. Their riff-driven thrash channels the aggressive spirit of the genre from the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.
Hailing from Methuen, Massachusetts, this Hatchet have been carving out death metal since 2012 with surgical economy. Their approach draws on classic East Coast extremity — dense, technically precise, and uninterested in compromise.
Arvada, Colorado's Hatchet Fucked deal in brutal death metal with a blunt-instrument aesthetic — the name alone signals their intent. Since forming in 2018, they've pursued the genre's most punishing qualities with committed, no-frills intensity.
San Francisco's Hatchets for Hands have threaded melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility through a more caustic death metal frame since 2016. There's melodic ambition here balanced against genuine aggression — hooks that cut rather than console.
Austin's Hatchetwork have been swinging thrash metal axes since 2019, their sound steeped in the Bay Area and Texas traditions the city has quietly harbored for decades. Fast, riff-driven, and built for the pit.
Indianapolis's Hatchling push death metal into stranger territory, filtering the genre through an experimental lens that keeps listeners slightly off-balance. Formed in 2013, they favor structural unpredictability and unconventional texture over genre formulas.
Chicago's Hate draw from a broad well of extreme subgenres, weaving thrash, sludge, and doom into a dense, shifting sound since 2013. The Midwest backdrop gives the music a cold, industrial weight that fits the trio of genres like a rusted glove.
Black metal project from Querfurt, Germany, formed in 2021. Their bleak, hateful sound emerges from the quiet medieval town in Saxony-Anhalt with an incongruously ferocious intensity.
From Oslo in Norway, this blackened thrash metal act brings relentless intensity to the regional scene since 2019. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
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