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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Utica, New York's Half Dead arrived in 2022 with a mission to play straightforward, ugly death metal without pretense. What they lack in history they make up for in sheer downtuned brutality.
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.
Pasadena's Half Moon Codex operate at the intersection of sludge, drone, and doom — long-form compositions that move with the patience of tectonic plates and the weight to match. Formed in 2018, they're a fixture in the Southern California heavy underground.
Baltimore's Half Orc emerged in 2025 playing death/doom metal that leans into the genre's most crushing, suffocating qualities. Still fresh, but early output points toward something genuinely menacing from the Maryland scene.
Metalcore and melodic death metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2022. Their sound bridges the intensity of metalcore breakdowns with the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-style death metal.
Hartford, Vermont's Half Past Human have been delivering metalcore since 2017, standing out simply by virtue of flying the flag in a state not typically associated with the genre. Earnest, aggressive, and built for small venues.
Sarasota's Half Ton Hammer fuse progressive metal's structural ambition with groove metal's visceral punch, resulting in something heavier and more dynamic than either genre alone. Florida has a long tradition of heavy music, and these guys fit right in.
Dayton, Ohio's Half-Lit brew groove metal with a Southern rock warmth, a combination that sounds loose and lived-in rather than clinical. Founded in 2019, they're the kind of band best experienced cold beer in hand.
Philadelphia's Half-Ton of Humanity take the mechanical churn of progressive thrash and push it through a classic heavy metal sensibility, landing somewhere between technical and anthemic. They've been at it since 2020 in one of the East Coast's most competitive metal cities.
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