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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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Pioneering New York City hardcore/crossover legends, the Cro-Mags fused Hare Krishna philosophy with pit-wrecking riffs on their landmark 1986 debut 'The Age of Quarrel,' defining the sound of NYHC for decades.
Tacoma crossover/thrash act Crooked Cross fuse punk aggression with thrash metal riffing and hardcore bite, channeling the Pacific Northwest's DIY ethic into relentless pit-ready output.
Fayetteville, North Carolina hardcore/thrash outfit Crooked Cult dish out tight, fast, and unrelenting crossover material rooted in the confrontational traditions of both genres.
Seattle black metal/hardcore act Cross fuse the bleak intensity of black metal atmosphere with the visceral directness of hardcore punk, part of the Pacific Northwest's sprawling extreme underground.
Titusville, Pennsylvania's Crowbra carves out a genuinely strange niche, fusing industrial metal's mechanical menace with black metal atmospherics and hardcore's confrontational energy. Abrasive and uncompromising, they resist easy categorization.
West Virginia trio Crown Vic drag death metal's brutality through the swampy weight of sludge and the confrontational energy of hardcore. The Parkersburg band produces crushingly heavy material built on feedback-laden grooves and raw hostility.
Richmond hardcore-thrash crossover band fusing the pit-ready urgency of hardcore with the technical edge of thrash metal. They carry the aggressive spirit of Virginia's storied underground scene.
Boise death metal and hardcore crossover act bringing Pacific Northwest aggression to a genre-blurring extreme. Their sound is physically confrontational and direct, built for live punishment.
New York City's Cult Dialect carves out a gritty crossroads between death metal, hardcore, and thrash, channeling the borough's street-level aggression into a blunt, punishing hybrid sound. Their approach owes as much to the NYHC tradition of blunt-force riffing as it does to the death and thrash scenes that grew up alongside it.
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