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Battlelines (2023)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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One More Flag in the Ground (2023)
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Crushing Death Metal from Houston.
Out of New Castle, Indiana, HaShem have been grinding out death metal since 2013 with a tenacious, no-frills ferocity. Small-town Midwest grit infuses their approach — no spectacle, just the relentless mechanics of the genre done right.
Pennsylvania's Hashgrinder emerged from the Poconos in 2015 fusing death metal's grotesque power with grindcore's short-fuse aggression. Their approach is blunt and efficient — songs that hit hard and end before the bruise has time to form.
California's Hat occupy a grimy corner where death metal's brutality meets sludge metal's oppressive drag, and they've been doing so since 2011. There's a caustic, tar-thick quality to their output — ugly in all the right ways.
Hailing from Methuen, Massachusetts, this Hatchet have been carving out death metal since 2012 with surgical economy. Their approach draws on classic East Coast extremity — dense, technically precise, and uninterested in compromise.
Arvada, Colorado's Hatchet Fucked deal in brutal death metal with a blunt-instrument aesthetic — the name alone signals their intent. Since forming in 2018, they've pursued the genre's most punishing qualities with committed, no-frills intensity.
San Francisco's Hatchets for Hands have threaded melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility through a more caustic death metal frame since 2016. There's melodic ambition here balanced against genuine aggression — hooks that cut rather than console.
Indianapolis's Hatchling push death metal into stranger territory, filtering the genre through an experimental lens that keeps listeners slightly off-balance. Formed in 2013, they favor structural unpredictability and unconventional texture over genre formulas.
Saint Paul's Hate Beast have been crossing death and thrash metal since 2013, cultivating a sound with the bite of both — technical enough to keep things interesting, violent enough to keep things honest. Minnesota grit runs through the marrow.
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