Named after the rune representing hail and disruption, Hagalaz is a black metal project that fuses raw aggression with punk's irreverence, active since 2017. Their runic namesake suggests the chaotic and destructive intent baked into their music.

One of Maine's most idiosyncratic metal acts, Hallowed Butchery have spent over fifteen years refusing to settle — beginning as a black/grind project and gradually morphing into something incorporating doom, folk, and experimental elements. Based in Kennebec County, their music sounds like it grew out of the woods rather than any rehearsal space.

Oakland's Harvestman is the project of Steve Von Till of Neurosis, applying his vision to folk and drone metal of eerie, meditative quality. Active since 2005, the project weaves ancient folk feeling through trance-inducing drone textures in ways that feel genuinely ritualistic.

Los Angeles folk metal act Hauk bring organic instrumentation and a sense of ancient mythology to the Southern California scene, carving out a distinctive niche that owes as much to folk traditions as to metal's power.

Philadelphia's Heathen of the North have been bringing Viking and folk metal's epic mythology to Southeastern Pennsylvania since 2012, melding battle-ready riffs with melodic folk instrumentation. Their music celebrates pre-Christian northern tradition with genuine reverence and compositional craft.

Rooted in the forests and rolling hills of central Virginia, Hellfarer weave folk instrumentation and pagan atmosphere into black metal's cold fire since 2016. The result feels genuinely Appalachian — haunted, earthy, and proud of its distance from the mainstream.