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HateSower is a technical death/black metal band from Caserta, Italy, formed in 2025. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Hatespace is a sludge metal band from Drogheda, Ireland, active since 2020 and delivering crushing, suffocating heaviness from the low end. The project channels the abrasive, punishing weight of sludge metal.
Death metal band from Thuringia, Germany, active since 2015. Their uncompromising death metal channels the genre's most punishing traditions from the green heart of Germany.
Melodic death/thrash/groove metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, formed in 2009. Their versatile approach spans the full spectrum from Gothenburg melodies through thrash velocity to groove metal heaviness.
Emerging from Oulu's underground, this black metal act has been forging menacing sonic fury since 2018. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Chattanooga's Hatestomp bring a Southern swagger to their groove metal, locking into thick, mid-paced riffs with the confidence of a band that knows the South breeds its own strain of heavy.
Hatestorm is a black metal project from Chernogolovka, Russia, active since 2008 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Operating out of Granbury, Texas since 2004, Hatestorm33 deal in raw, unpolished black metal with forays into dungeon synth — lo-fi and uncompromising in a way that feels deliberately removed from the mainstream.
An established melodic death/thrash metal voice from Lohja, contributing to Finland's underground since 2025. Technical precision and brutal aggression merge in their approach to the genre.
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