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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Waukegan, Illinois' Tongan Death Grip tear through crossover thrash with the pit-ready aggression of bands who treat hardcore and metal as one continuous tradition rather than adjacent scenes. Formed in 2018, they wear their influences — D.R.I., Suicidal Tendencies, early Slayer — on their sleeve without apology.
Torment from Elizabeth, New Jersey formed in 2021, playing crossover thrash that blends the speed and spite of hardcore punk with traditional thrash riffing. The New Jersey scene's hardscrabble energy runs through their approach, keeping things lean and hostile.
San Jose, California's Total Badass play crossover thrash with the no-apologies irreverence the name implies, mashing punk speed with thrash riff sensibility in a style that owes as much to the skate-and-destroy ethos as to metal.
New Orleans speed metal and crossover outfit Total Hell bring the Crescent City's outsider aggression to a sound built on raw velocity and punk-metal collision, arriving in 2019 as a product of the city's perpetually fertile underground.
New York crossover outfit Total Waste formed in 2023, bringing together the fury of hardcore punk and the riff aggression of thrash metal into a sound built for the pit and the chaos of the underground live circuit.
New Orleans crossover thrash outfit Totally Possessed bring the city's irreverent energy to a genre built on speed and attitude, fusing thrash metal's riff attack with hardcore punk's blunt force since 2017.
A New York crossover thrash band formed in 2024, Tower 7 blend the punk aggression and short-burst energy of hardcore with the riff velocity of thrash, arriving at a sound built for circle pits and chaos.
Houston's Towerlord, formed in 2024, ride the crossover thrash lane with a Texas attitude — tight, aggressive riffing that bridges hardcore punk's directness and thrash metal's speed, putting them squarely in Houston's tradition of no-nonsense underground heaviness.
Orlando's Toxic Intent, formed in 2023, crash crossover thrash and straight-up thrash together into a ferocious and streamlined package, playing with the short-song urgency of hardcore and the technical riffing of thrash in equal measure.
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