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Brand new as of 2024, Kendallville, Indiana's Wizards of the Damned are already staking out uncompromising territory with a sound that splices sludge metal, death metal, and hardcore into something confrontational and ugly in the best possible way. Coming from a small Midwestern town, they carry that outsider energy into their music — no industry calculus, just raw extremity. Their debut presence signals an act determined to make an impression immediately.
Wolf King out of the Bay Area, California blends black metal's cold fury with hardcore's blunt-force directness, forming a hybrid sound built around suffocating riffs and urgent, confrontational delivery since 2016. The collision of those two worlds gives their music a physical, pit-ready intensity that never sacrifices atmosphere for aggression. They occupy a space in the crossover underground where the lines between genres dissolve into something rawer and more primal than either tradition alone.
Colorado Springs' Worry have been trading in the sludge-hardcore crossover since 2017, building a sound that is slow enough to crush and aggressive enough to pummel. Their music draws on the bleak altitude of the Colorado Front Range, pairing sludge metal's deliberate heaviness with hardcore's blunt-force urgency.
Salt Lake City's Wulf Blitzer have been running black metal, death metal, and hardcore through the same engine since 2015, producing something that hits harder and moves faster than any one of those genres alone. Utah's underground scene is small but fierce, and Wulf Blitzer embody that scrappy, crossover energy.
Ódio Pago came together in Manaus in late 2023, pulling from groove metal, thrash, nu-metal, and hardcore to build a dense, aggressive sound anchored by the five-piece lineup of David Feitosa, Hian Sátiro, Matt Queiroz, Samuel PS4, and Saulo Bernardino. Their 2024 Doença da Sociedade rehearsal demo captures the band in early formation, with a raw energy that points toward a heavier and more refined direction.
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