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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.
A recent arrival from Fargo, North Dakota, Hanging Wound formed in 2023 and plant their flag firmly in death metal territory, adding another grim chapter to Fargo's quietly active extreme metal scene.
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.
Hansen have flown without a home state since forming in 2010, a nomadic heavy metal operation that lets the music do the orienting — straightforward, song-driven, and rooted in the genre's classic energy.
South Florida's Hanus emerged from Margate in 2024, bringing a death-thrash attack steeped in the Sunshine State's long tradition of extreme metal — fast, angry, and technically sharp.
New York's Hanzel und Gretyl have built a career out of fusing industrial machinery with heavy metal groove, a gleefully deranged act whose electronic aggression and gothic theatrics set them apart from the pack since 2009.
Frigid Depressive Black Metal from Sarasota, Florida (early); San Antonio, Texas / France (later).
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