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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Soul Divided is a Louisville, Kentucky crossover thrash band formed in 2017, blending the aggression of hardcore punk with thrash metal riffing in the tradition of classic crossover acts.
Southern Tongues is an Ohio death metal and hardcore band formed in 2019, bringing the visceral collision of extreme metal and hardcore aggression that defined bands working the boundary between the two genres in the American underground.
Spaisekult is a Vermont-based progressive sludge metal and hardcore band formed in 2022. They meld the caustic, slow-burning density of sludge metal with hardcore's propulsive urgency and progressive metal's structural ambition, operating on the experimental edge of all three genres.
Speaker Eater is an atmospheric sludge and doom metal band from Wausau, Wisconsin, formed in 2011, building massive, slow-burning compositions that blend post-hardcore dynamics with the crushing weight of sludge and the desolate sprawl of atmospheric doom.
Spinebreaker is a San Jose death metal and hardcore band formed in 2014, blending the savagery of death metal with hardcore's directness and aggression in the Bay Area's active heavy underground.
Spitting Black is a Boston-based band formed in 2006 that fuses the rawness of black metal with the aggression of hardcore punk, delivering a caustic blend of blast beats and d-beat rhythms. Their sound sits in the tradition of the black metal/hardcore crossover that flourished in the northeastern US underground.
Splitting Septum is a sludge, thrash, and hardcore band from Indiana, formed in 2025, blending the downtuned abrasion of sludge metal with thrash aggression and hardcore's confrontational energy.
Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.
Los Angeles band formed in 2025 fusing black metal's cold dissonance with the urgency and aggression of hardcore punk, operating at the raw intersection of both traditions.
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