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Island In The Sun (Re-Opened 2025) (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Featured Sludge Metal Album
The Serpent Only Lies (2016)
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Hamilton, New York's Harbinger play traditional heavy metal with a conviction that feels earned — a small-town act formed in 2015 with big riffs and a clear love for the genre's classic, no-nonsense core.
Lansing, Michigan's Harbinger race through heavy, speed, and thrash metal with relentless momentum since 2015, another act from the Great Lakes underground proving that the Midwest has always had the chops.
Denver's Harboured emerged in 2020 weaving atmospheric black metal into post-metal expansiveness, their sound as high and cold as the Rocky Mountain backdrop that defines the city they call home.
Virginia's Hard Bleed formed in Woodbridge in 2026, pressing groove metal muscle into sludge metal decay — a bruising and purposefully slow-burning new entry in the Northern Virginia underground.
San Francisco's Hard Driver have been trafficking in traditional heavy metal since 2017, a city that once defined the genre's most extreme edges now home to a band with its eye firmly on the classic sound.
Brentwood, California's Hard Fail push melodic death metal with enough melodic sensibility to hook you and enough pure death metal weight to follow through since forming in 2018.
Philadelphia's Hardgore have been dealing in death-thrash brutality since 2016, the city's aggressive musical DNA running through every riff — unpolished, direct, and unapologetically vicious.
Jacksonville's Hardwired blends neoclassical flair with progressive metal's technical ambition, drawing on shred tradition as much as compositional complexity. Formed in 2016, they navigate the space between virtuosic guitar work and expansive song structures.
New Jersey's Hari Kari arrived in 2012 with thrash metal in their blood and a live reputation to match the name's reckless energy. They favor the Bay Area template — tight riffs, aggressive momentum, and an uncompromising attitude.
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