Named after a demon of transformation, Long Island's Haagenti began with melodic death metal roots before evolving into a heavier, more unrelenting death metal sound over their decade-plus existence. Their trajectory mirrors the demonic namesake — a gradual, deliberate shift into something darker.

San Diego's Habitual Defilement occupies the brutal end of the death metal spectrum, fusing slam's rhythmic brutality with the relentless speed and gore fixation of brutal death metal since 2012. Unambiguously punishing.

Marietta, Georgia's Haborym traffics in the raw intersection of black and death metal, bearing the name of a duke of hell and emerging in 2024 with a fittingly malevolent sound. Expect no mercy and no polish.

Canandaigua, New York's Haborym bludgeons with brutal death metal authority, offering the full-spectrum punishment that the subgenre requires since their 2024 formation. Dense, guttural, and relentless.

Northampton, Pennsylvania's Hackpeter mashes death metal's surgical brutality against grindcore's frantic brevity, producing a sound that's equal parts calculated and chaotic since their 2019 formation.

Portland's Hacksaw brings a grind-splattered death metal sound to the Pacific Northwest underground, their jagged attack and economical song structures marking them as a product of the city's adventurous extreme scene since 2016.

Florida's Hacksaw pursues the brutal death metal path with the blunt efficiency the state's scene is notorious for, formed in 2016 and carrying on the Sunshine State's rich tradition of extremity.

Wilmington, North Carolina's Hadea refuses easy classification — their death metal foundation is filtered through progressive songwriting and experimental tendencies that set them apart from more conventional genre practitioners. Since 2014, they've been one of the more intellectually restless acts in the Southeast.

Seattle's Hades Bellum brings a merciless black/death metal hybrid to the Pacific Northwest underground, with a name that invokes the god of the underworld alongside the Latin word for war. Founded in 2024, they're one of the newer and more aggressive acts to emerge from the city's extreme scene.

Out of Harrisonburg, Virginia, Haetriarchy carves out a black/death metal sound in the heart of the Shenandoah Valley since 2019 — one of the more geographically isolated extreme metal acts in the mid-Atlantic region, which perhaps explains the ferocity.

Salt Lake City's Hagraven channels the rowdy spirit of black 'n' roll — black metal's blackened edge colliding with hard rock swagger — since their 2023 formation. Against Utah's austere backdrop, they're a wild anomaly.

Santa Rosa, California's Haig Ozanian is both a solo project and a melodic death metal statement, active since 2022 and drawing on the Scandinavian-influenced style's melodic sensibility to craft songs that balance aggression with memorable hooks.

Haine is a US black metal project founded in 2018 whose name — French for "hatred" — signals exactly the kind of cold, misanthropic atmosphere they pursue. Sparse on location, heavy on malice.

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Named for a surf town on Oahu's North Shore, Los Angeles' Haleiwa play black/death metal with none of that coastal serenity — just caustic, violent extremity from the City of Angels since 2010.