New York's Headless Eyes occupy an unusually broad corner of extreme metal, blending death, thrash, and traditional heavy metal into a sound that refuses easy categorization. Formed in 2020, they draw on the full timeline of heavy music and synthesize it into something with its own jagged shape.

Brooklyn's Heavy Reign blend neoclassical metal's formal rigor with progressive metal's exploratory tendencies, a pairing that yields music of unusual compositional ambition from this 2022 New York City act. They bring a concert hall sensibility to music built on distorted guitars and dynamics.

Brooklyn's Hellreign bring a cold, unforgiving black metal aesthetic to New York City, forging bleak tremolo walls and icy atmosphere since 2017. Their urban environment gives the darkness a peculiar, concrete-and-shadow texture.

New York's Hemlock trade in a stripped-down, venomous strain of black metal since 2018 — the kind of music that feels personal, antagonistic, and far less interested in spectacle than in atmosphere. Cold, minimal, and quietly corrosive.

Brooklyn's Hemzeodysnexia arrived in 2022 with a mouthful of a name and a brutal death metal sound to match — dense, merciless, and technically ferocious, staking out their corner of New York's underground with immediate ferocity.

New York's Heretic Bodyhammer arrived in 2022 with a death metal attack that the name describes better than most press releases could — blunt, aggressive, and deliberately mechanical in its devastation. They hit like the instrument in question.

From Saugerties, New York, Hexe Krieg weaponize the convergence of thrash, death, and speed metal into something relentlessly kinetic. Since 2012 the band has pursued a style that is as mechanically aggressive as it is single-minded in purpose.

Buffalo, New York's Hubris channel a different kind of pride — the black metal variety — since 2015, operating with the bleak ferocity that the industrial ruins of western New York seem to inspire. Cold and unrelenting.

New York's Humanity Falls have been dissecting death metal and grindcore through an experimental lens since 2009, treating tempo, structure, and brutality as variables rather than constants. Technical, disorienting, and genuinely unsettling.