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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Delaware death metal/hardcore hybrid formed around 2018, combining the brutality of death metal with hardcore's blunt social commentary.
Experimental post-black metal/grindcore/hardcore from Dallas.
Long Island, New York death metal and hardcore hybrid that emerged in 2014, blending the brute force of death metal with the urgent, confrontational energy of hardcore.
Atlanta band fusing death metal's heaviness with hardcore's confrontational energy, arriving in 2023 with a sound built around punishing breakdowns and extreme vocals.
New York's Castevet bring a post-hardcore edge to black metal's dissonant framework, threading progressive song structures through bleak, abrasive soundscapes that reward patient listening.
Founded by ex-Cattle Decapitation bassist Troy Oftedal, Cave Bastard forge a savage hybrid of death metal, sludge, and hardcore from San Diego with relentless abrasive heaviness.
Little Rock's Cavort Usurp mix black metal's raw intensity with hardcore's direct aggression and thrash metal's riff-forward energy, creating a crossover-adjacent sound that feels combative and street-level.
Chaos Cross is a crossover thrash band from Boston, Massachusetts that fuses the aggression of hardcore punk with the riff-driven intensity of thrash metal. The band is part of Boston's active underground metal and hardcore scene.
Chaos Theory is a groove metal and hardcore band from Bordentown, New Jersey that formed in the mid-1990s and was part of the state's robust metallic hardcore scene during that era. The band drew on the collision of groove metal heaviness and hardcore intensity that defined much of the New Jersey underground at the time.
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