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Vicious Thrash Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.
Boston's Shipwreck A.D. has been tearing through the intersection of hardcore, thrash, and crossover since 2006, earning a reputation as a ferocious live act whose sound carries both the muscle of thrash and the aggression of the city's hardcore lineage.
Death metal and hardcore band from Guarulhos, São Paulo, formed in 2020, with a lineup of Vicente Moreno on guitar and vocals, Kleber Hora on guitar, Tiago Grilli on bass, and Osmar Jr on drums. The band released a self-titled EP through their Bandcamp page and made their live debut at NVS Studio & Pub.
Philadelphia's Shiv merge death metal's crushing heaviness with hardcore's blunt-force directness, operating out of Philly's notoriously intense extreme music scene since 2016 with a sound as sharp and purposeful as their name implies.
Chicago crossover thrash/hardcore band formed in 2022, fusing the breakneck tempos of thrash with hardcore's confrontational directness — their Spanish name, meaning "God willing," suggesting a pointed cultural identity within a genre historically dominated by Anglo voices.
Pike County, Pennsylvania death/groove metal and hardcore hybrid active since 2007, named after the aggressive African driver ant — a fitting moniker for a band that merges the relentless churn of death metal with groove-heavy riffing and hardcore's blunt force.
North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania's Sinister came together in 2020 fusing the breakneck pace of thrash metal with hardcore's blunt-force directness, a combination well-suited to western Pennsylvania's legacy of working-class underground music. Their crossover approach emphasizes short, hard-hitting songs driven by aggression rather than technical showing-off.
Phoenix, Arizona's Siphon have operated since 2004 at the intersection of thrash, groove metal, and hardcore, building a aggressive, crossover-inflected sound shaped by the desert Southwest's abrasive heavy music underground.
Skab tears out of New Orleans with a crossover thrash attack that grafts the aggression of hardcore punk onto thrash metal riffing, the kind of sweaty, pit-ready sound the city's underground scene breeds naturally. Formed in 2019, they keep things short, loud, and confrontational.
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