All metal music sounds the same, if it can be called music in the first place,” a friend told this writer years ago. Recently, we discover The Hu, a folk metal band from Mongolia that bashes both claims. The band plays metal music using tribal instruments like the horsehead fiddle and the jaw harp, seamlessly pairing it with throat-singing. And yet this description is an understatement of how hardcore their music really is.  

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