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Chicago's Deep in Shit have been running death metal, grindcore, and hardcore through a meat grinder since 2013, producing short, furious assaults with no room for mercy.
Denton, Texas crossover act Degenerate have been fusing thrash, hardcore, and punk energy since 2016, plugging into the North Texas underground that's long been fertile ground for aggressive, genre-blurring music. Their sound hits fast and mean — the kind of crossover that owes equal debts to DRI and Slayer — and lives or dies by its ferocity in a live room.
St. Augustine's Demasguts hit the ground running in 2024, deploying a three-way collision of thrash, death metal, and hardcore that wastes no time on pleasantries. Their Florida roots come through in the swampy aggression — old-school meat-and-bones songwriting from a young band that clearly grew up on the classics.
Demencia is a thrash metal band from Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile, tracing its roots to the mid-1990s hardcore act Kaníbal Kañero before evolving toward a sound shaped by Kreator, Destruction, Dark Angel, and Obituary. The band released several demos culminating in the full-length MetalDistortion in 2008 on Agresor Records, after which they entered an extended hiatus.
Demencia is a thrash metal band from Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile, tracing its roots to the mid-1990s hardcore act Kaníbal Kañero before evolving toward a sound shaped by Kreator, Destruction, Dark Angel, and Obituary. The band released several demos culminating in the full-length MetalDistortion in 2008 on Agresor Records, after which they entered an extended hiatus.
Gloucester City, New Jersey's Departed have been operating in the gritty overlap of thrash, metalcore, and hardcore since 2016 — a combination that reflects the Garden State's blue-collar DIY ethos in every riff and shout. Their music is direct and confrontational, built for small venues and stage dives rather than festival main stages.
Out of Española, New Mexico since 2013, Desmadre are a controlled detonation of death metal, grindcore, hardcore, and thrash — a four-genre collision that mirrors the Spanish word for chaos itself. They play fast and mean, with the kind of pit-ready ferocity that small desert towns breed when they have something to say.
Displeasure is a grindcore and death metal band from La Plata, Buenos Aires, formed in 2020. They released the album "Enraizar el alma en lo complejo del odio" in February 2024 and contributed the track "Montañas de la locura" to the compilation "Sick Musik to Your Guts" later that year.
Out of Venice, Florida, Dominant Force blur the lines between crossover thrash, hardcore punk, and straight-up metal with the chaotic energy the genre demands. Formed in 2018, they carry the pit-starting ethos of classic NYHC crossover acts filtered through Florida's sweat-drenched, no-nonsense underground. Their approach is fast, physical, and uninterested in subtlety — a machine built exclusively for live punishment.
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