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Portland death-grind trio active since 2018, fusing the blunt brutality of grindcore with death metal heft and hardcore's confrontational attitude. Their name and approach are blunt instruments by design.
World War Metal from Austin featuring members of Imprecation and Morbosidad. Debut full-length Commandoccult released 2022 on Godz Ov War Productions.
Atlanta, Georgia act formed in 2020, fusing black metal's corrosive tremolo assault with the confrontational aggression of hardcore punk — a combination central to the blackened hardcore movement gaining traction in the American underground.
Turok is a blackened death metal and hardcore band from Pompano Beach, Florida, formed in 2006, fusing the ferocity of hardcore with black and death metal extremity into a compact, violent package.
Twenty Third Chapter is a death metal and hardcore band from Bloomington, Indiana, formed in 1997, fusing metallic hardcore's directness with death metal's extremity over nearly three decades of underground activity.
Twisted Dream is a Florida hardcore and sludge metal band formed in 2018, merging the intensity and aggression of hardcore punk with the slow, oppressive weight of sludge metal into a raw and volatile sound.
UltraMantis Black is a hardcore band formed in 2014 by professional wrestler and musician UltraMantis Black alongside members of noise-rock group Pissed Jeans. The band's debut self-titled EP was recorded that same year and released on Sub Pop, combining grindcore intensity with hardcore punk aggression. Two subsequent full-lengths on Relapse Records continued the project, which has paired physical showmanship with explicitly political themes around animal rights and environmental activism.
Veteran San Diego outfit Unbroken have existed in the space between hardcore and metalcore since 1993, outlasting countless trends and scene shifts through sheer conviction. One of the longer-running acts in the American hardcore-adjacent underground, they bring decades of battle-hardened intensity.
Hardcore/thrash metal band from São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, formed in 2015 by Samuel Vieira (vocals), Fábio Gonçalves (bass), Jhon Braga (guitars), and Ramon Mantuan (drums). They released the EP Irracional Behavior in 2016 and the full-length Chaos Farm in 2018, alongside splits with bands from Greece, Sweden, Bulgaria, and Mexico.
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