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.

Virginia's Harvest the Lost arrived in 2024 with blackened deathcore built from converging extremes — death metal's brutality, black metal's atmosphere, and deathcore's breakdown-driven intensity. A young Warrenton band already operating in fully hostile territory.

Providence's Hate Lord emerged in 2023 blending the structural weight of deathcore with death metal's more traditional brutality. Rhode Island's small but fierce extreme scene is well-served by their dense, suffocating sound.

Hard-hitting metalcore from San Marcos.

Named for Hawthorne's condemned outsider, Kansas City's Hester Prynne channel that defiant energy into a brutal blend of deathcore and straight-ahead death metal. Active since 2009, they pair pulverizing low-end chug with genuine death metal menace.

Arlington, Texas's Hope Deferred occupy the grinding intersection of deathcore and death metal, channeling spiritual despair into brutally heavy music since 2016. The name comes from scripture; the sound comes from somewhere far darker.

Crushing Death Metal / Deathcore from Amarillo.

Des Moines, Iowa's Hours of Decay have been fusing the rhythmic punch of groove metal with deathcore's heaviness since 2015. Midwest persistence channeled into something dense and relentless.