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Los Angeles grindcore outfit H.A.R.M. has been blasting through the Southern California underground since 2018, delivering the kind of short, violent bursts that the genre demands. Their name functions as a mission statement.
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.
Columbus, Ohio's Hadak Ura is one of the more unorthodox acts to emerge from the Midwest's extreme metal scene — a grinding black metal project that fuses the frozen hatred of black metal with the frenetic velocity of grindcore since 2015.
Haemophagus is a death metal/grindcore band from Palermo, Italy, active since 2009 and delivering uncompromising extremity through crushing riffs and guttural vocals. The project channels the relentless brutality of the genre.
Spanish goregrind pioneers from Coslada, formed in 1990 and signed to Relapse Records. Their seventh album We Are The Gore features guest appearances from members of Carcass, Impaled, and Ghoul, delivering scalpel-sharp riffs and triple-threat guttural vocals mastered by Brad Boatright.
Hairy Pussy is a thrash/death metal/grindcore band from Sosnowiec, Poland, formed in 2020. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Milwaukee's Half Gorilla are one of the newer acts blurring the line between grindcore and death metal, bringing chaotic speed and blunt force to the Wisconsin underground since 2023. Short songs, maximum damage.
One of Maine's most idiosyncratic metal acts, Hallowed Butchery have spent over fifteen years refusing to settle — beginning as a black/grind project and gradually morphing into something incorporating doom, folk, and experimental elements. Based in Kennebec County, their music sounds like it grew out of the woods rather than any rehearsal space.
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