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The Haunting Green from Italy craft doom, post-metal, and drone exploring the eerie beauty of overgrown, abandoned spaces since 2014. A decade of verdant, spectral compositions channels nature reclaiming the built world.
The Haunting Presence emerged from California in 2012 as a project straddling the jagged boundary between black and death metal, pursuing a sound that is at once cavernous and suffocating. Their approach leans into the murky, atmosphere-heavy end of death/black fusion — dense, dissonant, and deliberately unsettling. It's music that sounds like it was dragged up from somewhere dark and left just barely intact.
The Haven Theory is a metalcore/melodic death metal band from Cologne/Düren, Germany, active since 2009. They blend metalcore's breakdowns with melodic death metal's harmonic richness.
The Haze Palqui is a stoner/doom metal band from Peñaflor, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile. The band released the EP Chamanic Palqui Experience in 2022, blending heavy fuzz-driven riffs with a psychedelic sensibility rooted in the desert and the underground doom scene.
The Haze Palqui is a stoner/doom metal band from Peñaflor, in the Santiago Metropolitan Region of Chile. The band released the EP Chamanic Palqui Experience in 2022, blending heavy fuzz-driven riffs with a psychedelic sensibility rooted in the desert and the underground doom scene.
The Headless Ghost from Milan deliver heavy metal channeling decapitated-specter horror since 2025. Their Lombardy base brings Italian gothic tradition to classic metal.
The Headpins emerged from the Vancouver rock scene as a hard-driving project led by guitarist and songwriter Brian MacLeod and bassist Ab Bryant, both already tied to major Canadian rock circles. With Darby Mills' raspy, high-powered vocals at the front, the band developed a loud, riff-heavy sound that balanced arena-rock muscle with bluesy hard rock swagger. Their debut album Turn It Loud became their defining statement, powered by songs such as "Don't It Make Ya Feel" and the title track, and helped make them one of Canada's most recognizable hard rock acts of the early 1980s. The follow-up Line of Fire kept the emphasis on big choruses, tough guitar tones, and Mills' commanding vocal presence. The band's identity has always rested on volume, groove, and stage energy rather than polish alone, giving their best-known material a durable bar-band-to-arena feel. Even through lineup changes and long gaps, The Headpins remain tied to Canadian hard rock's early-80s commercial peak.
The Healing Process from Italy craft technical thrash metal since 2021. Their medical-recovery name drives compositions that diagnose and treat through precision riffing.
São Paulo heavy/power metal band formed in 2018, whose drummer Marcus Dotta recorded the posthumous Warrel Dane album Shadow Work (Century Media, 2018), tracking drums after Dane died of a heart attack in São Paulo in December 2017. The band released the EP Into the Fire on August 29, 2023, and followed it with Welcome (to the Dead) in 2024.
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