San Diego's Hanging Garden have cultivated a strain of depressive black metal since 2013 that leans heavily into isolation and despair, letting long, suffocating passages take root in the mind.

Frigid Depressive Black Metal from Sarasota, Florida (early); San Antonio, Texas / France (later).

Arizona's Harad emerged in 2022 with melodic black metal that feels both epic and austere, channeling the desert state's vast, sunburned landscape into something cold and expansive.

Los Angeles' Harassor weld black metal misanthropy to hardcore punk fury, a confrontational and abrasive act since 2010 whose music sounds like it was recorded in a burning building on purpose.

Denver's Harboured emerged in 2020 weaving atmospheric black metal into post-metal expansiveness, their sound as high and cold as the Rocky Mountain backdrop that defines the city they call home.

St. Louis's Harkonin fuse the venomous attack of black metal with thrash's relentless forward drive, a combination that's been lethal since their 2022 formation. Their music hits with the speed and spite that the blackened thrash tradition demands.

New Paltz, New York's Harrower have carved a space in post-black metal since 2015, threading atmospheric passages through black metal's abrasive core with a sophistication that feels native to Hudson Valley's thoughtful underground scene. Their music rewards close attention.

Indianapolis black metal project Hart is the solo work of a musician who has channeled the genre's isolation and introspection since 2017. The project captures black metal's solitary spirit with a fidelity to the rawer, more atmospheric end of the style.

Phoenix's Harvest Gulgaltha have been fusing black and death metal since 2012 with a desert brutality that channels the Sonoran landscape's extremity into music. Their name references the biblical site of crucifixion, signaling both their lyrical intent and sonic violence.