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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
AMENRA "Day Is Done" by Nick Drake (2021)
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Hedmark is a post-metal band from Norway, formed in 2025. They craft atmospheric, dynamic post-metal compositions.
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.
Hedon's is a progressive metal band from Cortoghiana (South Sardinia), Italy, formed in 2013. They craft intricate progressive compositions with technical ambition.
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.
Hedonistic Exility is a technical brutal death metal/deathcore band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2015. They unleash unrelenting brutal death metal fury.
Thrash metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, active since 2012. Their aggressive thrash sound cuts through from one of Germany's sunniest cities at the edge of the Black Forest.
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