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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Seguin, Texas's Deadly Mass bring death metal and hardcore together with the direct, no-wasted-motion approach of a band formed in 2023 with something to prove. The Hill Country may be known for country music, but Deadly Mass are here to correct that narrative.
Brooklyn's Deadzone collide doom, groove metal, and hardcore into something that sounds both crushed by urban weight and ready to erupt — fitting for a New York City band formed in 2016 with no patience for clean resolutions. Heavy, unpolished, and confrontational.
Chicago's Death by Design crash thrash metal and hardcore together in the tradition of the city's storied aggressive music scene, built for maximum velocity and pit destruction. Formed in 2025, they represent a new generation of Midwest crossover heaviness.
Pennsylvania's Death Descending operate out of Du Bois, combining death metal brutality with hardcore's confrontational energy for a style rooted in aggression rather than technicality. Formed in 2023, they represent the continuing vitality of extreme metal in the Rust Belt.
Massachusetts' Death Ray Vision have been laser-focused on the hardcore/thrash crossover since 2011, delivering short, furious blasts that owe as much to the Boston hardcore scene as to Bay Area riff worship. Blunt, fast, and unapologetically angry.
Tacoma's Deathbed Confessions smash sludge metal's tar-thick heaviness into hardcore's convulsive urgency, producing something that sounds like a breakdown in every sense of the word. They've been a force on the South Sound heavy scene since 2012.
Gainesville's Deathblender arrived in 2024 already comfortable fusing death metal's technical brutality with hardcore's confrontational snap — a natural evolution for a Florida city with deep roots in both worlds.
Lafayette's Declare War fuse death metal brutality with groove-laden riffs and hardcore aggression, a combination that hits like a fist to the jaw. Formed in 2024, the Louisiana outfit wears its crossover influences without apology.
Minneapolis crossover outfit Decomposer have been shredding the line between thrash, hardcore, and punk since 2015 with the caustic energy of a band that doesn't sit still. Think circle pit first, melody second.
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