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Devastating Death Metal / Hardcore from Austin.
Thrash metal and hardcore band from Piracicaba, São Paulo, active since 1997. The band released the album Vença Seus Medos in July 2023 on TGR Sounds, a ten-track record catalogued as hardcore metal and crossover.
Formed in 2024 in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, Scorched Mind arrived already operating at the intersection of three unforgiving genres: death metal's guttural extremity, hardcore's blunt-force confrontation, and sludge's slow, tar-thick grind. That northeastern Pennsylvania post-industrial grit filters through their sound — riffs that drag and then erupt, tempos that punish before collapsing into murk. A brand-new project with the density of something that's been corroding for decades.
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Akron's Self Loathing formed in 2018 and operate at the volatile intersection of death metal and hardcore punk, bringing the blunt-force aggression of the latter to the low-end brutality of the former. The band's crossover approach is rooted in the Rust Belt tradition of music that doesn't ask permission — short, crushing, and direct. They're part of a small but committed Ohio underground scene that treats genre boundaries as obstacles to be demolished.
Death metal and hardcore band from Cuiabá, Mato Grosso, formed in 2022 by Luiz Magrão (bass), Fabricio Roder (drums), Edir Manzano (guitar), and Carlão Eckert (vocals), with a stated aim of strengthening the Cuiabá underground scene. They released the EP HATE in 2025 and the single "Black Mirror," whose music video was featured on Hardcore Worldwide in August 2024.
Denver's Sewerslide fuse the rotting heaviness of death metal with the confrontational momentum of hardcore, a combination that's felt strongly in the Mile High city's DIY scene since their 2022 formation. Their sound hits like a cave-in — dense, punishing, and over before you can process it.
Salt Lake City's Sewn Shut merge death metal's heaviness with hardcore's confrontational bite, forming a brutal hybrid that fits naturally into Utah's tightly-knit extreme music underground. Active since 2023, they bring a direct, no-compromise intensity to their crossover attack.
Charlotte's Shanked are fresh off the launchpad as of 2025, delivering death metal and hardcore in a blunt combination that prioritizes brutality and aggression over subtlety. The band slots into North Carolina's growing extreme metal underground with a sound that owes as much to caveman deathcore as it does to the old-school hardcore they're drawing from.
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