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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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New York's Hatred Palisade build industrial black metal architecture from cold machinery and corrosive atmosphere, the electronics never softening the aggression but instead amplifying its mechanical dread.
Absolutely punishing grindcore / powerviolence from Houston.
Oakland's Hatriot began as a ferocious thrash outfit before sharpening their attack into melodic death/thrash territory, carrying the Bay Area's aggression forward with a seasoned lineup and a commitment to controlled brutality.
Hatröss is a death/thrash metal band from Pula, Croatia, formed in 2012. They forge aggressive extreme metal at the crossroads of death and thrash.
Hats Barn is a black metal project from Lille, France, active since 2010 and forging dark, aggressive extremity within the France black metal scene. The project channels the unrelenting intensity of the genre.
Hailing from Ålesund in Norway, this black metal outfit channels aggressive energy since 2025. Their approach balances melodic undertones with the genre's most aggressive impulses.
Raw black metal project from Belgium, steadily building a body of work across four numbered demos since their formation in 2019. Each release strips the genre down to its most primal elements, favoring unpolished aggression over studio refinement.
Emerging from Kristinehamn's underground, this death/thrash metal act has been forging raw sonic fury since 2024. Their work explores the genre's heaviest territories through savage delivery.
Los Angeles folk metal act Hauk bring organic instrumentation and a sense of ancient mythology to the Southern California scene, carving out a distinctive niche that owes as much to folk traditions as to metal's power.
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