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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Pittsburgh's Hand of Doom wrap their hardcore urgency in thrash metal riffing, a combination that makes perfect sense coming from a city that has always produced hard, no-nonsense music. Formed in 2018.
Las Vegas's Hand of Doubt slam crossover thrash, hardcore, and straight-up metal together into something that sounds like a pit fight with a soundtrack — relentless and confrontational since 2019.
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Rooted in the gritty New Haven scene, Hang Your Cross weave together hardcore aggression, crawling sludge, and the expansive textures of post-metal into a dense, suffocating sound since 2017.
Springfield, Massachusetts' Hanging by a Thread blend death metal brutality and hardcore urgency into something visceral and uncompromising, active since 2012 in western New England's overlooked metal scene.
Los Angeles' Harassor weld black metal misanthropy to hardcore punk fury, a confrontational and abrasive act since 2010 whose music sounds like it was recorded in a burning building on purpose.
Hauser is a death metal and grindcore band from Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil, formed in 2011. Drawing influence from national acts like Are You God? and Test alongside international names such as Nasum and Rotten Sound, the band channels raw hardcore aggression into a brutal grindcore framework. Their releases include the 2019 album Messias and the 2020 album Cinza, the latter described as ten tracks of visceral, explicit grindcore.
Lubbock's Heavens Final War have been fusing hardcore's rage with thrash metal's technical attack since 2015, creating a confrontational sound that fits right in with West Texas's no-nonsense ethos. Their crossover energy is blunt and unapologetic.
Los Angeles outfit Heil drags black metal into the sweat-soaked chaos of hardcore, fusing scathing tremolo aggression with the blunt physicality of the pit. Since 2012 they have weaponized both traditions into something confrontational and hard to classify.
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