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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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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.
Long Island's Hate have occupied the speed/thrash lane since 2013, channeling the raw aggression of the subgenre's most unrestrained practitioners. Their music is lean, fast, and wears its New York edge plainly.
Hayward, California's Hate plant their flag firmly in thrash metal, formed in 2013 with the Bay Area tradition running conspicuously through their DNA. Tight riff construction and aggressive forward momentum define their approach.
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.
Saint Paul's Hate Beast have been crossing death and thrash metal since 2013, cultivating a sound with the bite of both — technical enough to keep things interesting, violent enough to keep things honest. Minnesota grit runs through the marrow.
Mount Laurel's Hate Breeder, formed in 2024, navigate the space between melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication and metalcore's structural punch. A fresh entry in New Jersey's growing extreme metal scene.
Detroit's Hate Chamber arrived in 2024 fusing groove metal's locked-in heaviness with thrash metal's attacking momentum. The Motor City backdrop feels appropriate — rhythmically precise, mechanically relentless.
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