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State Of Unrest (2023)
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California's Haunter fuse black metal and punk into an abrasive and energetic hybrid, stripping both styles down to their most confrontational qualities and igniting them in the same short fuse.
Atlanta's Haunting Eden bring gothic metal's signature interplay of beauty and darkness to the Georgia scene, pairing heavy instrumentation with a melodic sensibility that leans into the theatrical and the melancholic.
Providence's Haunting Figure arrived in 2022 with black metal that carries the brooding weight you'd expect from Rhode Island's famously overcast skies — raw, isolationist, and built to linger long after the last note fades.
Haunting Scars is a black metal project from Ptolemaida, Greece, active since 2023 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Greece black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hauntologist is a atmospheric black metal/post-rock band from Kraków, Poland, formed in 2023. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Des Moines thrash outfit Hauntology take their name from the concept of the past refusing to stay dead, and their music lives up to it — riff-driven and relentless, haunted by the ghosts of the genre's formative years.
Strasburg, Pennsylvania's Hauntz have been crafting no-frills thrash metal since 2018, drawing from the straightforward aggression and melodic urgency of the genre's classic era without apology or embellishment.
Hauser is a death metal and grindcore band from Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2011. Drawing influence from national acts like Are You God? and Test alongside international names such as Nasum and Rotten Sound, the band channels raw hardcore aggression into a brutal grindcore framework. Their releases include the 2019 album Messias and the 2020 album Cinza, the latter described as ten tracks of visceral, explicit grindcore.
Metalcore band from Cottbus, Germany, active since 2016. Their aggressive sound brings the intensity of metalcore to the Brandenburg region of eastern Germany.
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