Filthy Black Metal from Dripping Springs.

New York's Hung take the melodic and progressive side of death metal seriously, building dense, shifting compositions since 2014 that reward repeated listens. Technically ambitious without losing sight of the riff.

Santa Cruz, California's Hunger have been serving up groove-driven thrash with a coastal menace since 2020, built on mid-paced pocket grooves and riff momentum that pulls like an undertow. Thrash by way of the Pacific.

Scorching Black Metal from El Paso.

Chicago's Hunters have been roaming the stoner-sludge terrain since 2011, combining hazy psychedelic drift with the kind of low-end punishment the Windy City's heavy underground specializes in. Thick, slow, and suffocating in the best sense.

From Chinle, Arizona — deep in Navajo Nation — Hunters Moon bring melodic death metal rooted in striking geographic and cultural context since 2021. Their music carries the sweep of canyon country: expansive, powerful, and shot through with natural darkness.

Los Angeles heavy metal band Huntress formed around 2007 when vocalist Jill Janus, a trained opera singer with a four-octave range, connected with a local underground metal outfit and built the group into a touring act signed to Napalm Records in 2011. The band released three albums — Spell Eater (2012), Starbound Beast (2013), and Static (2015) — before dissolving, their sound rooted in classic heavy metal with thrash and doom influences. Janus's death in August 2018 marked the definitive end of the project, though the band's records remain a significant document of the early 2010s traditional metal revival.

Chicago thrash-metalcore band Hurtlocker formed in 1998 and released a series of demos before issuing Fear in a Handful of Dust (2005) and Embrace the Fall (2007) on Napalm Records. Their sound bridged the aggressive thrash metal of the Bay Area with the metalcore aggression prominent in the mid-2000s American heavy scene. The band has since dissolved, leaving behind a compact catalog that reflected the crossover moment between those two worlds.

Bedroom black metal and death drone project. Merges early 90s black metal with Broken Flag-style industrial and Lustmord-esque dark ambient.