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Tacoma's Deathbed Confessions smash sludge metal's tar-thick heaviness into hardcore's convulsive urgency, producing something that sounds like a breakdown in every sense of the word. They've been a force on the South Sound heavy scene since 2012.
Gainesville's Deathblender arrived in 2024 already comfortable fusing death metal's technical brutality with hardcore's confrontational snap — a natural evolution for a Florida city with deep roots in both worlds.
Lafayette's Declare War fuse death metal brutality with groove-laden riffs and hardcore aggression, a combination that hits like a fist to the jaw. Formed in 2024, the Louisiana outfit wears its crossover influences without apology.
Minneapolis crossover outfit Decomposer have been shredding the line between thrash, hardcore, and punk since 2015 with the caustic energy of a band that doesn't sit still. Think circle pit first, melody second.
Chicago's Deep in Shit have been running death metal, grindcore, and hardcore through a meat grinder since 2013, producing short, furious assaults with no room for mercy.
Denton, Texas crossover act Degenerate have been fusing thrash, hardcore, and punk energy since 2016, plugging into the North Texas underground that's long been fertile ground for aggressive, genre-blurring music. Their sound hits fast and mean — the kind of crossover that owes equal debts to DRI and Slayer — and lives or dies by its ferocity in a live room.
St. Augustine's Demasguts hit the ground running in 2024, deploying a three-way collision of thrash, death metal, and hardcore that wastes no time on pleasantries. Their Florida roots come through in the swampy aggression — old-school meat-and-bones songwriting from a young band that clearly grew up on the classics.
Demencia is a thrash metal band from Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile, tracing its roots to the mid-1990s hardcore act Kaníbal Kañero before evolving toward a sound shaped by Kreator, Destruction, Dark Angel, and Obituary. The band released several demos culminating in the full-length MetalDistortion in 2008 on Agresor Records, after which they entered an extended hiatus.
Demencia is a thrash metal band from Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile, tracing its roots to the mid-1990s hardcore act Kaníbal Kañero before evolving toward a sound shaped by Kreator, Destruction, Dark Angel, and Obituary. The band released several demos culminating in the full-length MetalDistortion in 2008 on Agresor Records, after which they entered an extended hiatus.
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