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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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Hedonihil is a death/black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Hedonism is a raw black metal project from Paris, France, active since 2026 and dealing in lo-fi, primitive black metal hostility stripped to its most essential and aggressive core. The project embraces the rawest traditions of the genre.
Heekkiandrändulakk is a depressive black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They channel bleak, emotionally devastating black metal from the depths of despair.
Hefeystos is a black/gothic metal (early); avant-garde rock (later) band from Rumia, Poland, formed in 2020. They craft dark, atmospheric gothic metal layered with emotional depth.
Hegemon is a black metal project from Montpellier, France, active since 2008 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Cold sludge/black/post-metal project from Poznań, carving a path through Poland's underground since 2014. Icy melodies interwoven with blast-beaten fury characterize their output.
Grindcore and death metal act from Stockton-on-Tees in northeast England, active since 2021. Their lordly gore-themed name matches extreme compositions from the Teesside underground.
Rooted in Częstochowa's underground, this pagan black metal project delivers furious compositions with conviction since 2023. Steeped in second-wave tradition, their work explores misanthropy and desolation.
Drawing from Katowice's metal heritage, this melodic black metal outfit channels fierce energy since 2012. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
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