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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Blackened death/gothic metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2020. Their distinctive fusion merges the brutality of blackened death metal with the dark romance of gothic metal.
Hecate is a black metal project from Tours, France, active since 2011 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hecate Enthroned is a symphonic/melodic black metal band from Manchester, England, formed in 2019. They craft atmospheric melodic black metal with sweeping melodies and emotional depth.
Hecatombed is a death/black metal band from Piotrków Trybunalski, Poland, formed in 2020. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
A savage black/death/sludge metal entity from Slovakia, active since 2024. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Hedenskfrid is a atmospheric black metal band from Finland, formed in 2023. They craft expansive, atmospheric black metal compositions with textural depth.
Hednablod is a black metal project from Västerås, Sweden, active since 2026 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Sweden black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Atmospheric/depressive black metal project from Hesse, Germany, formed in 2026. Among the newest entries in the German DSBM scene, they channel emotional desolation into atmospheric black metal.
Hedon is a melodic death/black metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2013. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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