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Island In The Sun (Re-Opened 2025) (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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The Serpent Only Lies (2016)
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Named for the four-armed Mortal Kombat villain, this San Francisco outfit emerged in 2024 swinging old-school heavy metal with a playful nod to the genre's pulpy, monstrous roots.
Portland's Hands of Thieves cast a wide net across black, death, and doom metal, conjuring something genuinely dark and multifaceted since forming in 2016 in the Pacific Northwest underground.
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.
Rooted in the gritty New Haven scene, Hang Your Cross weave together hardcore aggression, crawling sludge, and the expansive textures of post-metal into a dense, suffocating sound since 2017.
A shadowy black metal entity active since 2011, Hanged operates without a fixed city address, letting the music speak in cold, unlocated menace and unrelenting primitive darkness.
North Carolina's Hanged Angel surfaced in 2024, bringing a fresh set of black metal claws to the American underground with raw, unflinching material that wastes no time establishing its intent.
Drawing equally from the murk of New Orleans sludge and the frost of black metal, Hanged Man have lurked in the Crescent City's underground since 2011, building a sound as damp and oppressive as the city itself.
Olympia, Washington's Hangfire launched in 2025, reaching back to classic heavy metal and hard rock traditions with a no-frills, riff-forward approach that favors feel over flash.
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