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  With over 830M all-time streams, #1 charting albums, multiple sold-out headlining tours across the globe, appearances at major festivals worldwide, recognition from top government agencies and officials, and collaborations with some of rock’s biggest names, THE HU have brought Mongolian music to the forefront with their innovative brand of ‘Hunnu Rock.’ They will now bring their unparalleled and immersive performance to audiences across North America as they join forces with rock legends Iron Maiden as direct support on their “Future Past” arena tour starting tonight, October 4 in San Diego, CA. THE HU have paid tribute to Iron Maiden by today releasing a cover version of one of the band’s most popular songs, “The Trooper,” which AllMusic described as "an all-time genre classic.” Founding member, Lead Throat Singer, and Morin Khuur musician GALA excitedly states: “The Hu is thrilled to be on Iron Maiden’s Future Past Tour in North America. For us, this tour represents an import...

  Today Global Mongolian rock phenomenon THE HU bring forth their riveting live album, THE HU LIVE AT GLASTONBURY. Recorded at their groundbreaking debut performance at the legendary Glastonbury Festival in 2023 in front of over 210,000 festival goers, it’s been streamed a record-breaking 50.3 million times across the UK and Europe via BBC iPlayer and BBC Sounds. Listen here . Available now on all streaming and download platforms, THE HU LIVE AT GLASTONBURY will release on CD and Vinyl on 21 June. The record features 11 songs, including the band’s RIAA Gold-certified hit ‘Wolf Totem’, which has accumulated over 320M all-time streams globally and 98+ million YouTube views. Also popular tracks from their 2019 breakthrough debut The Gereg and its follow-up album Rumble Of Thunder (2022). Seven songs from the album were previously released as part of a limited-edition vinyl offering exclusively for Record Store Day on 20 April. “We are very excited for our fans to experience the crazy...

  Acclaimed Mongolian rock band, The HU, have announced a brand new European tour, HISHIGTEN, for September 2024. These shows come ahead of their tour with the legendary Iron Maiden, supporting them on their US shows in October. Tickets on sale for The HU’s Europe dates here . Across 17 dates The HU will perform in Estonia, Latvia, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic, Austria, Croatia, Italy, Switzerland and France, as well as starting the tour in Helsinki, Finland on 4 September, and closing out in Madrid, Spain, on 26 September. Full dates and venues below. Band leader Gala says: “We’re so excited to be back performing in Europe - during this run, we are planning to visit places we have never performed in before, and hope to see all of our fans with new music that we have been working on… You might get to hear some new material before anyone else! Right now we are at home in Mongolia, and over the past year our priority has been making some incredible music that we love. The release ...

  Mongolian rock sensation THE HU are honored to announce they will join heavy metal icons IRON MAIDEN as direct support on the band’s upcoming North American leg of their “The Future Past World Tour 2024” this fall. The tour will start on Friday, October 4 in San Diego, CA and stretch across both coasts before ending Sunday, November 17 in San Antonio, TX. Tickets are on sale now HERE . See full dates listed below. THE HU recently shared a live video for the track “Triangle” from their 2022 sophomore album RUMBLE OF THUNDER (via Better Noise Music) featuring performance footage take from their co-headlining U.S. tour with labelmates Asking Alexandria last summer. Watch it on YouTube HERE or streaming below. “Iron Maiden are the masters of rock music and one of our biggest inspirations,” shares lead Morin Khuur and throat singer ENKUSH. “The way that they create and perform their music is majestic. I still remember the first time I heard their ‘Trooper’ song and felt the deep en...

  Acclaimed Mongolian rock band THE HU will perform their first-ever virtual concert in the Metaverse on March 30 in partnership with ARD Financial Group (ARD). Tickets on sale now via www.hu.rocks Throughout this unique show, fans will experience a virtual world created by MetaForce that highlights THE HU’s home country of Mongolia. The band have shared the traditions and cultural importance of Mongolia through their hunnu rock genre of music by utilising traditional instrumentation, throat singing and singing entirely in the Mongolian language - all these elements viewers can now experience within their Metaverse show. With sold-out tours across the globe and having performed at some of the top-rated music festivals including Coachella, Lollapalooza and Download Festival, THE HU are well known for a spectacular live show. Now, they’re taking it to a whole new level - watch the trailer for Rumble of Thunder v1.1 here . THE HU are the first Mongolian band ever to take their music i...

  Better Noise Music, home to bands including Five Finger Death Punch, The HU, NOTHING MORE, Bad Wolves, Asking Alexandria and many more, present their 12 Days of Xmas! Each day beginning from Tuesday, December 13 until Xmas Eve, Better Noise will highlight some of the biggest albums they have released this year! THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22 THE HU Rumble Of Thunder What more can be said of The HU? Most recently the band received a very special UNESCO “Artist For Peace” Designation. The first heavy music band to receive such an honor. Hailing from Mongolia, The HU have combined traditional music and instrumentation performed in their native language using native instrumentation with Western modern rock stylings to create a unique and catchy sound they have labelled as “Hunnu Rock.” Across its 12 tracks, Rumble Of Thunder connects the world to Mongolian culture and its unique core values of natural preservation and spiritual connection with the earth. These core values are on full disp...

  Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of UNESCO, has named acclaimed Mongolian folk metal band The HU as a UNESCO Artist for Peace at a ceremony at the Organization's Headquarters in Paris. After Azoulay met the eight members of The HU during her official visit to Mongolia in August 2022, their musical style and ideas immediately resonated with UNESCO's values and work. The HU are the first band from the rock genre to receive this accolade from UNESCO, making this honour even more special. They join a family of artists committed to bringing cultures together and supporting artistic creation, such as Amine Kouider, Valery Gergiev and Scott Momaday, plus the UK’s own Sarah Brightman and Dame Shirley Bassey. Founded in 2016 in Ulaanbaatar, The HU, who have thousands of fans around the world, have created a unique musical genre they call "Hunnu Rock”. It fuses rock and heavy metal with styles of traditional Mongolian music, such as the art of Khöömei (throat singing), the tsuu...

Hailing from Mongolia, THE HU have combined traditional music and instrumentation performed in their native language using native instrumentation with Western modern rock stylings to create a unique and catchy sound they have labelled as “Hunnu Rock.” The acclaimed rock outfit have today, September 2, unleashed their anticipated second official studio album RUMBLE OF THUNDER via Better Noise Music alongside the music video for the track ‘Bie Biyelegee’. In this lively video, THE HU can be seen dancing in the traditional Mongolian style of “biyelgee.” “‘Bie Biyelgee’ is about having a good time,” share THE HU. “We danced like we never danced before during the video shoot and the movements where we tried to imitate biyelgee were very challenging. The biyelgee movements require a different skill set than you would find in any dance genre so in that way, celebrating these qualities are fascinating and inspiring to us.” Check out the video below: Across its 12 tracks, RUMBLE OF THUNDER co...

  Photo Credit: Enkhbat Nyamkhishig LONDON, UK – 8 July 2022 – Today breakthrough Mongolian rock act The HU announced details of their long-awaited sophomore album Rumble of Thunder, recorded via Better Noise Music, and released new single ‘Black Thunder’ alongside an official music video. The band’s 12-track second studio album is set for release on 2nd September and includes “This Is Mongol,” their eco-conscious single released in May, that now boasts over a million streams in less than two months. The record also features new single, ‘Black Thunder’, which incorporates Mongolian values, telling a powerful story of battle, faith, and death lyrically and visually – watch the official music video HERE  or see below. See below for a full track list and pre-order their new album, Rumble of Thunder, HERE . The band has been teasing new music from their sophomore album on their headlining Black Thunder Tour, at Coachella, and soon on tour with Five Finger Death Punch and ...

LONDON, Tuesday 28 June, 2022: Acclaimed Mongolian rock band The HU are bringing their brand-new Black Thunder Tour to the UK and Europe later this year. After returning with the single ‘ This Is Mongol ’ last month, The HU have announced a UK and European tour for 2022, starting in Oslo, Norway on 26 Oct, and finishing in London with a huge show at the Roundhouse on 9 Dec. Whilst in the UK the Black Thunder Tour will also visit Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, Cardiff, Birmingham, Belfast and Glasgow – full UK dates below. Pre-sale for tickets (if applicable) will begin tomorrow Wednesday 29 June 9AM local time, with General Sale on Friday 1 July at 9AM local time. Visit www.thehuofficial.com for more information. THE HU – BLACK THUNDER TOUR – UK DATES 28.11.22 – Manchester / Academy 30.11.22 – Leeds / Stylus 01.12.22 – Nottingham / Rock City 02.12.22 – Cardiff / Great Hall 03.12.22 – Birmingham / O2 Institute 05.12.22 – Dublin / 3Olympia 06.12.22 – Belfast / Ulster Hall 07.12.22 – ...

  Photo Credit: Enkhbat Nyamkhishig Acclaimed Mongolian rock band The HU return with a huge new single ‘This Is Mongol’, out everywhere today. Ahead of their second official studio album, set for release later this year via Better Noise Music, The HU share new track ‘This Is Mongol’. As with all of their music, The HU connects the world to Mongolian culture and its unique core values of natural preservation and spiritual connection with the earth. These core values are on full display in the new, epic official video for ‘This is Mongol’, also released today. Watch here . The deeply meaningful lyrics in their new track uplift the Mongol people, as the band wishes for prosperity and peace among all. Previously debuting at #1 on the World Album and Top New Artist charts with their 2019 debut album The Gereg, the band are excited to start dropping new music for fans. Currently on their Black Thunder Tour, The HU also recently played two incredible Coachella sets, earning an array of...