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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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New York's Dangerous Thing knit technical death metal's surgical precision to hardcore's raw intensity, producing music with both intellectual and visceral impact. Founded in 2020, they occupy a volatile, unpredictable space between cerebral and confrontational.
Pittsburgh's Dark Wolf throws black metal, thrash, crossover, and hardcore into a single pit and sees what crawls out — a ferocious hybrid formed in 2024 that captures the working-class aggression of one of America's most metal-ready cities.
Out of Dearborn, Michigan, Darkeater fuse death metal's pulverizing low-end with hardcore's visceral urgency, forging a sound that hits like a factory floor collapse. Since 2014 they've honed a relentless style that bleeds aggression and stays firmly rooted in the Midwest's working-class grit.
Woodinville, Washington's Darkmysticwoods drag sludge metal's thick, tar-slow heaviness through a hardcore framework, resulting in something lurching and confrontational since 2015. The Pacific Northwest setting fits the project's murky, forest-drenched aesthetic perfectly.
New York's Darkside NYC have been a fixture of the city's crossover underground since 1992, blending streetwise hardcore grit with thrash metal velocity in a sound that refuses to mellow with age.
Chattanooga's Datura splice hardcore's blunt-force urgency into a black metal framework, creating a collision of punk hostility and atmospheric darkness that's been burning since 2019.
San Antonio's Dawn of Ash weld brutal death metal to hardcore's confrontational urgency, a combination that hits like a sledgehammer wrapped in barbed wire. One of the newest entries in Texas's consistently ferocious extreme metal scene, formed in 2025.
Southern California's Dead Cross are a supergroup project that tears through crossover thrash and hardcore punk with an experimental bent — unpredictable, intense, and built from some of the genre's most experienced musicians. Their music moves fast and thinks faster.
Oxnard, California's Dead Heat are a crossover act in the true sense — born from hardcore's aggression and thrash's technical ferocity, they've been carving out their niche in the Ventura County underground since 2016. Fast, loud, and uncompromising.
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