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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Worcester, Massachusetts hardcore punk and post-metal project. The existentialist name channels the ever-present awareness of mortality through heavy, boundary-crossing music from central Massachusetts.
Buffalo, New York hardcore punk and thrash hybrid. The comparative name promises something beyond ordinary darkness from Western New York's hardscrabble scene.
Massachusetts sludge metal and hardcore punk project. Spectral visions rendered in crushing heaviness from the Bay State.
A Hanging is a hardcore punk and thrash metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, active since 2015 with five releases. The band plays short, violent bursts of crossover aggression rooted in both punk fury and thrash precision. Named after the George Orwell essay, their music carries a grim, politically charged undercurrent fitting for a band born in post-Katrina New Orleans.
A Pregnant Light is a prolific post-black metal and hardcore project from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mastermind Damian Master has released an enormous body of work blending black metal with post-punk, shoegaze, and hardcore influences, maintaining a relentless output of singles, EPs, and full-lengths that defy easy categorization.
Milford, Connecticut grindcore, hardcore punk, and powerviolence project. A trio of aggressive genres from small-town Connecticut.
Absent Mind is a thrash metal and hardcore band from Chicago, Illinois. Across two EPs — 2016's "Brainwaves" and 2019's "Weight of the World" — the band fuses crossover thrash intensity with hardcore punk urgency.
Heavy Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.
Furious Black / Thrash Metal, Punk from El Paso.
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