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Narrative (Instrumental) (2022)
Featured Black Metal Album
Of Stone, Wind, & Pillor (Remastered) (2021)
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American Horse (feat. John Cooper of Skillet and Ayron Jones) (2024)
11/14 @ WC Social Club, West Chicago
Featured Progressive Metal Album
A Thousand Days (2024)
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New Orleans sludge and doom act Haarp draws heavily from the murk and misery of their city's storied extreme metal tradition. Since regrouping in 2014, they've built a reputation on crushing low-end riffs and an oppressive, swamp-soaked heaviness.
Out of New Orleans, Haate has been channeling pure thrash aggression since 2014, bringing a mean-spirited, no-frills attack that fits right alongside the city's broader tradition of extreme music. Raw and relentless.
San Diego's Habitual Defilement occupies the brutal end of the death metal spectrum, fusing slam's rhythmic brutality with the relentless speed and gore fixation of brutal death metal since 2012. Unambiguously punishing.
Pittsburgh's Habitual Sins has been carrying the torch for traditional heavy metal in western Pennsylvania since 2017, drawing on the genre's classic power and melodic directness while planting firmly in the city's blue-collar metal tradition.
Marietta, Georgia's Haborym traffics in the raw intersection of black and death metal, bearing the name of a duke of hell and emerging in 2024 with a fittingly malevolent sound. Expect no mercy and no polish.
Atlanta's Hackenschmied is a freshly minted raw black metal project, born in 2025 and committed to the genre's most primitive and abrasive aesthetic. Little studio gloss, maximum sonic hostility.
Allston, Massachusetts is an unlikely home for a stoner metal band, but Hackman has made it work since 2011, fusing the genre's hazy, riff-heavy grooves with the Boston area's characteristically no-nonsense underground ethos.
Northampton, Pennsylvania's Hackpeter mashes death metal's surgical brutality against grindcore's frantic brevity, producing a sound that's equal parts calculated and chaotic since their 2019 formation.
Portland's Hacksaw brings a grind-splattered death metal sound to the Pacific Northwest underground, their jagged attack and economical song structures marking them as a product of the city's adventurous extreme scene since 2016.
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