Hammerthrone is a crushing force of old-school-influenced death metal from Austin, TX. Formed in 2025, the band's foundations were built around the punishing Swedish HM-2 chainsaw riffs of the 90s. Vocals: TJ Lewis IV Guitar: Phil King Bass: Luke Frieb Drums: Dave Revere

Pittsburgh's Hand of Doom wrap their hardcore urgency in thrash metal riffing, a combination that makes perfect sense coming from a city that has always produced hard, no-nonsense music. Formed in 2018.

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.

Fresno's Hands That Kill arrived in 2025 swinging a chaotic three-way hybrid of death metal, thrash, and grindcore — short, fast, and built to draw blood from the first second.

Don't let the name fool you — Dyer, Indiana's Handsome Prick play brutally earnest grindcore and death metal, delivering short blasts of punishing noise with zero irony since 2016.

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.

Springfield, Massachusetts' Hanging by a Thread blend death metal brutality and hardcore urgency into something visceral and uncompromising, active since 2012 in western New England's overlooked metal scene.

Toledo's Hanging Fortress have been carving out death metal material since 2018, bringing the grim industrial character of a rust belt Ohio city to straightforward, skull-splitting extremity.