Out of New Castle, Indiana, HaShem have been grinding out death metal since 2013 with a tenacious, no-frills ferocity. Small-town Midwest grit infuses their approach — no spectacle, just the relentless mechanics of the genre done right.

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.

Hashishian traffic in a slow-moving collision of drone, doom, and stoner metal that feels less like a song and more like sinking. Formed in 2023, the project leans into immense, meditative weight, letting each tone hang in the air long past its welcome.

Denver's Hashtronaut have been navigating the outer reaches of stoner and doom metal since 2020, blending cosmic heaviness with riff-forward songwriting. Their sound evokes weightlessness achieved through sheer volume — fuzz as propulsion.

Conjured in 2023 in the Appalachian foothills of Franklin, North Carolina, HashWitch brews stoner metal with a distinctly earthy, ritualistic character. The mountain setting seeps into the tone — slow grooves with a pagan undertow.

Birmingham, Alabama's Haste formed in 1995 and occupied a space where post-hardcore, metalcore, and emo intersected. The band released three albums — Pursuit in the Face of Consequence (1999), When Reason Sleeps (2001), and The Mercury Lift (2003) — before disbanding in 2007. The Mercury Lift in particular drew comparisons to the atmospheric post-hardcore of Quicksand and Hum, and the band is remembered as a defining act of the early 2000s regional heavy music scene.

Indianapolis metalcore outfit Haste the Day were a driving force in the Christian metalcore movement of the 2000s, blending melodic hooks with aggressive breakdowns across albums like 'Burning Bridges' and 'Pressure the Hinges.' Their farewell show at Furnace Fest became legendary, though the band has since reunited periodically to remind fans why they were one of the scene's most beloved acts.

California's Hat occupy a grimy corner where death metal's brutality meets sludge metal's oppressive drag, and they've been doing so since 2011. There's a caustic, tar-thick quality to their output — ugly in all the right ways.

Hailing from Methuen, Massachusetts, this Hatchet have been carving out death metal since 2012 with surgical economy. Their approach draws on classic East Coast extremity — dense, technically precise, and uninterested in compromise.