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Out of Concord, New Hampshire, Halo Pus strip black metal down to its most primitive bones — cold riffs, hissing production, and an atmosphere that feels like winter on a dead road. Raw and uncompromising since 2020.
Indianapolis death metal outfit Hamarr came together in 2022, delivering straightforward brutality without pretense. Their name echoes the Old Norse word for hammer, and the music swings accordingly.
Seattle's Hammer Strike emerged in 2026 drawing equally from death, thrash, and black metal — a Pacific Northwest act with no interest in picking just one lane of extreme metal aggression.
Brooklyn's Hammerhoid have been gleefully ransacking the intersection of speed, thrash, and black metal since 2014, their New York City chaos lending the music an urgency that straight-up retro acts rarely achieve.
Cleveland's Hammr channel the blackened speed metal of the early 1980s with a punk-soaked fury that fits perfectly in a city with a long history of no-bullshit heavy music. Active since 2018 and showing no signs of slowing.
St. Petersburg, Florida's Hanashi explore the atmospheric and depressive ends of black metal, their dense, mournful sound a striking contrast to Florida's reputation as a death metal state. Active since 2015.
Washington State's Hand of Flauros draw their name from demonological lore, and their black metal follows suit — occult in focus, dark in atmosphere, and deliberate in its malevolence since 2023.
Brooklyn's Hand of Glory take the occult imagery suggested by their name and translate it into black metal that feels rooted in genuine darkness rather than posture. Active since 2019 in New York City's dense underground.
Fayetteville, Arkansas's Hand of the Wicked combine melodic black and death metal with the kind of conviction that only comes from building something serious in a place where the scene doesn't hand anything to you. Formed in 2023.
Portland's Hands of Thieves cast a wide net across black, death, and doom metal, conjuring something genuinely dark and multifaceted since forming in 2016 in the Pacific Northwest underground.
A shadowy black metal entity active since 2011, Hanged operates without a fixed city address, letting the music speak in cold, unlocated menace and unrelenting primitive darkness.
North Carolina's Hanged Angel surfaced in 2024, bringing a fresh set of black metal claws to the American underground with raw, unflinching material that wastes no time establishing its intent.
Drawing equally from the murk of New Orleans sludge and the frost of black metal, Hanged Man have lurked in the Crescent City's underground since 2011, building a sound as damp and oppressive as the city itself.
Operating out of Broward County, Florida since 2012, Hanging by a Thread... trade in atmospheric black metal that sprawls and suffocates — desolate, hazy, and unshakeably bleak.
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.
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