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Featured Album
Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Conquer (feat. Josh Mowery of Catch Your Breath) (2025)
05/21 @ 170 Russell, Melbourne
Featured Groove Metal Album
Evidence (2023)
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Oakland's Hellbeard have been mining the Oakland sludge tradition since 2010, piling down-tuned misery onto doom's already crushing foundation. Their sound carries the Bay Area's industrial grit embedded in every slow, punishing riff.
Massachusetts's Hellbeast emerged in 2023 from the northeastern underground with a blackened death metal attack that makes no concession to accessibility. Raw, punishing, and unyielding, they traffic in pure extremity without ceremony.
Salt Lake City's Hellbender found their footing in 2020 crafting heavy and power metal that balances muscular riffing with melodic ambition. The band channels classic metal's sense of adventure into tight, anthem-ready songwriting.
San Francisco's Hellbender bring groove metal's thick, locked-in rhythms to the Bay Area's already fertile heavy music ecosystem. Founded in 2020, the band leans into the genre's mid-tempo swagger and riff-first approach with seasoned conviction.
Atlanta's HellBent have been splitting the difference between death, thrash, and groove since 2014, assembling a hybrid built on relentless pocket and punishing velocity in equal measure. Southern sharpness and urban grit fuel their high-energy assault.
Blasphemous Raw Black Metal out of Texas.
Relentless Thrash / Groove Metal from Weslaco.
Chicago's Hellbound Sons arrived in 2025 waving the flag for classic heavy metal and hard rock in a city with deep roots in both. Stripped of pretense and loaded with riff, they represent a straight-line back to the genre's foundational pleasures.
From the southernmost edge of Texas, McAllen's Hellbrood has served up raw black metal since 2013, carving out an unlikely but genuine outpost for the genre in the Rio Grande Valley. Their sound is bleak, stripped, and borders-defying.
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