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Featured Album
Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
Featured Thrash Metal Album
Obnoxious Demos (2014)
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Featured Grindcore Album
Mentally Murdered (2019)
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Black metal/noise/experimental project from Germany, formed in 2022. Their boundary-pushing sound dissolves the barriers between black metal, noise, and experimental music into a uniquely abrasive vision.
Helvegen is a blackened death metal band from Västerås, Sweden, formed in 2015. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
Folk/black metal band from Munich, Germany. Their sound weaves folk melodies and acoustic passages into a black metal framework, drawing on both Germanic and Norse cultural traditions.
Black/Death Metal force from Catania, scorching and relentless since 2012. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Fierce raw black metal from Norway, contributing to the national scene since 2023. Cold atmospheres and venomous vocals define their particular approach to the genre.
Helvetestromb is a black/thrash metal/crust punk act from Stockholm, Sweden, active since 2017 and fusing black metal's corrosive darkness with the speed and aggression of thrash. The project delivers volatile crossover fury.
Helveth is a black metal project from Kaliningrad, Russia, active since 2024 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Russia black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Helvetus is a black metal project from Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, active since 2020 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the Ukraine black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Helvort is a symphonic black/death metal band from Chelyabinsk, Russia, formed in 2013. They forge extreme metal at the fierce intersection of black and death metal.
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