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HNTR

HNTR is a Juno Award-winning DJ and producer from Toronto, founder of the label No Neon, best known for the viral techno hit "Yes B!tch" and his remix of Cloonee's "Stephanie".

Hodgy

Hodgy (Gerard Long, born 1990), since 2023 recording as Jerry, is an American rapper from Trenton, New Jersey, founding Odd Future member, one half of MellowHype with Left Brain, known for The Dena Tape and Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide.

Hole in the Sky (Bergen Metal Fest)

Hole in the Sky was a metal festival in Bergen, Norway, held annually from 2000 to 2011 and founded as a memorial to drummer Erik "Grim" Brødreskift.

Hollywood Rose

Hollywood Rose was the early 1980s Los Angeles hard rock band of Axl Rose, Izzy Stradlin, and Chris Weber, also named A.X.L. and Rose; its 1984 demo became The Roots of Guns N' Roses (2004), and its 1985 merger with L.A. Guns formed Guns N' Roses.

Holocausto

Holocausto is a Brazilian extreme metal band formed in 1985 in Belo Horizonte, a founding act of the Cogumelo Records scene known for war-themed black and thrash metal.

Holy Goof

Holy Goof is a Coventry-born DJ and producer at the forefront of the UK bassline revival since 2014, blending bassline house, UK garage, and grime.

Holy Priest

Holy Priest is a masked German electronic producer and DJ in hard techno, rawstyle, and hardcore who runs the label FXCK and ranked 8th among Beatport's top-selling Hard Dance artists of 2024.

Holy Ship!

Holy Ship! is an electronic dance music festival brand created by Gary Richards of HARD Events, first held as a cruise in January 2012; since 2020 it has run as Holy Ship! Wrecked.

Honey Cocaine

Honey Cocaine, stage name of Sochitta Sal (born 1992), is a Cambodian-Canadian rapper from Toronto, also known as Honey C. Discovered by Tyga on YouTube in 2011, she released mixtapes including Like a Drug and The Gift Rap, and returned with Wildfire in 2018.

HoneyLuv

HoneyLuv, the professional name of Taylor Character, is an American tech-house DJ and producer from Cleveland whose single "365 (Thr33 6ix 5ive)" has over 21 million Spotify streams.

Hooded Menace

Hooded Menace is a Finnish death/doom metal band formed in 2007 in Joensuu by guitarist Lasse Pyykkö, named for the eyeless Knights Templar of the horror film Tombs of the Blind Dead.

Hoodie Allen

Hoodie Allen (Steven Adam Markowitz, born 1988, Plainview, NY) is an American pop-rap artist; Penn Wharton graduate and ex-Google employee whose All American EP (2012) hit Billboard top ten and whose Happy Camper topped the US rap chart.

Hopesfall

Hopesfall is an American post-hardcore band formed in March 1998 in Charlotte, North Carolina, best known for the melodic metalcore album The Satellite Years (2002).

Hopsin

Hopsin (Marcus Jamal Hopson, born 1985, Panorama City, CA) is an American rapper, producer, and actor. Signed to Ruthless 2007, broke out with "Sag My Pants" 2010, co-founded Funk Volume, released five albums including No Shame (2017).

Hospitality on the Beach

Hospitality on the Beach is a drum and bass holiday festival at The Garden Resort in Tisno, Croatia, run by Hospital Records' Hospitality brand and first held in 2018.

Hot Since 82

Hot Since 82 is Daley Padley, a British deep/tech house DJ and producer from Barnsley. Debut single "Let It Ride" (2011), Knee Deep In Sound label (2014), albums Little Black Book, Recovery, and Obsessions (2026).

Hotline Bling

Hotline Bling: 2015 Drake single sampling Timmy Thomas's Why Can't We Live Together, produced by Nineteen85; its Director X Apple Music video with Turrell-like cube rooms sparked the Drakeposting meme, peaked at Hot 100 No. 2, and won two 2017 Grammys.

Houghton

Houghton, also known as Houghton Festival, is a four-day live and electronic music festival held each August at Houghton Hall in Norfolk, England, founded by DJ Craig Richards in 2017.

House music

House music is a genre of electronic dance music defined by a steady four-on-the-floor kick pattern, created in Chicago's club culture in the late 1970s and 1980s.

Hozho

Hozho is the stage name of Joel Monteiro, a Portuguese electronic music producer and DJ born in 1993 in Viseu, known for his self-created Melodark sound.

Hudson Mohawke

Hudson Mohawke, real name Ross Birchard (born 1986, Glasgow), is a Scottish electronic producer and DJ, LuckyMe co-founder, Warp artist (Butter, Lantern, Cry Sugar), TNGHT member with Lunice, and Kanye West G.O.O.D. Music producer.

Huey (rapper)

Huey (Lawrence Franks Jr., 1987–2020) was a St. Louis-area rapper from Kinloch, Missouri, whose 2006 single "Pop, Lock & Drop It" peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100; he released Notebook Paper (2007) and Redemption (2010) and was fatally shot in 2020.

Hugel

Hugel is the stage name of Florent Hugel, a French DJ and record producer who broke through with his 2018 "Bella Ciao" remix and led the Latin house wave with "Morenita".

Hugo Kant

Hugo Kant is the alias of Quentin Le Roux, a French multi-instrumentalist making trip-hop and downtempo from acoustic recordings and samples, based in Marseille since 2011.

Humanity's Last Breath

Humanity's Last Breath, Swedish extreme metal/deathcore band formed 2009 in Helsingborg by Buster Odeholm (also of Vildhjarta); albums Structures Collapse, Abyssal, Välde, Ashen; known for dense, overproduced heaviness.

Hunxho

Hunxho (born Ibrahim Muhammad Dodo, 1999) is an American rapper and singer from Atlanta's Eastside known for Auto-Tuned melodic trap; his 2020 single "Let's Get It" went viral.

Hurricane Chris (rapper)

Hurricane Chris (Christopher Dooley Jr., b. 1989, Shreveport, Louisiana) is an American rapper of the ratchet scene whose 2007 single "A Bay Bay" hit No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100; albums 51/50 Ratchet and Unleashed; acquitted of murder in 2023.

Hurricane Wisdom

Hurricane Wisdom (Wisdom Oluola, born 2004) is a Florida rapper from Havana known for melodic pain music; breakout "Giannis" (2024), gold-certified, Billboard 200 albums Perfect Storm (2025) and Weathering the World (2026), 2026 XXL Freshman.

Hussein Fatal

Hussein Fatal, also known as Bruce Washington, was an American rapper from Montclair, New Jersey, best known as a member of Tupac Shakur's group the Outlawz.

HVME

HVME is a Spanish electronic music producer from Murcia who works in deep house, slap house, and future house, known for his 2020 rework of Travis Scott's "Goosebumps".