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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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A Thousand Days (2024)
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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.
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.
Yonkers, New York's Hanging Garden charts a different course — progressive death metal with ambition and technical edge, building compositional complexity into the brutality since 2013.
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