Named with sardonic humor, Dover, Pennsylvania's Hamilton Fish have been grinding out death metal and grindcore since 2019 — short, vicious songs that waste no time and take no prisoners.

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.

Painesville, Ohio's Hangnail have been grinding away since 1998, their thrash and grindcore roots keeping them lean and mean across nearly three decades of relentless, no-frills extremity.

New Orleans' Hangnail have dealt in death metal and grindcore since 1998, pairing the city's swampy, heavy undercurrent with the kind of blasting ferocity that demands short, vicious songs.

Chicago's Harpoon bring the controlled chaos of grindcore to the thrash metal framework, producing music that's fast, violent, and barely contained since 2014. Their sound has the aggression of both genres and the patience of neither.

Worcester, Massachusetts's Harvest Manipulation weaponize black metal, death metal, and grindcore into a chaotic, multi-headed assault that refuses to stay within any single genre's borders. Active since 2018, they operate in the most extreme margins of the heavy underground.

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.

Los Angeles's Hate for Humanity have been waging short, concentrated grindcore attacks since 2020 out of the San Fernando Valley. Blunt, fast, and abrasive — very much a product of LA's dense underground extreme scene.