Born out of rural Pennsylvania in 2022, Halo of Flesh deal in raw black metal and noise — corrosive, lo-fi, and deliberately hostile. There is nothing polished about what they do, and that is entirely the point.

Pennsylvania's Hate Moon weave symphonic grandeur into black metal's inherent coldness, creating music that's simultaneously ornate and menacing since 2017. Orchestral elements don't soften the edge here — they sharpen it.

Philadelphia's Hellegryre plant blackened death metal in the fertile underground soil of one of America's oldest cities, drawing on the Eastern Seaboard's long legacy of extreme music. Since 2020, their sound has pushed toward the violent convergence of both traditions.

Philadelphia's Hessian strip the genre back to its most feral components — black metal ferocity, speed metal momentum, and the raw bite of early thrash. Since 2014 they've operated at the intersection where aggression meets velocity.

Philadelphia's Hivelords collapse the boundaries between black metal, doom, and sludge into a dense, oppressive mass that borrows from each tradition without fully belonging to any of them. Since 2011 they've occupied a particularly unpleasant corner of the extreme metal underground, and they seem comfortable there.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania's Horde of the Eclipse have been forging melodic black metal since 2010, threading cold riffing and atmospheric darkness into compositions that feel celestial and menacing in equal measure.