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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Heavy metal act from the English Midlands, active since 2013. Over a decade of riff-driven compositions from the heartland of British metal have built a solid catalog of traditional heaviness.
HaSzem is a blackened viking/folk metal band from Poland, formed in 2019. They weave folk traditions into heavy metal compositions.
California's Hat occupy a grimy corner where death metal's brutality meets sludge metal's oppressive drag, and they've been doing so since 2011. There's a caustic, tar-thick quality to their output — ugly in all the right ways.
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.
San Francisco's Hatchet have been one of the Bay Area's more committed torchbearers for classic thrash since 2012, keeping the genre's technical precision and speed-driven riff vocabulary alive. They worship at the altar of the genre's golden era without sounding like a museum piece.
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.
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