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AntiFragile (2025)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Furious Crossover / Hardcore / Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Dallas country-outlaw-meets-hardcore punk. Southern Texas grit with Black Flag aggression.
Unantastbar formed in 2004 in South Tyrol, Italy — an autonomous province where German is widely spoken — and built their following playing German-language punk rock rooted in the Oi! tradition and Deutschrock. Their debut Niemals wie Ihr! (2006) established the anthemic, working-class style they would refine across a decade of releases; their 2018 album Leben Lieben Leiden reached number two on the German album charts. Signed to Napalm Records, the band has remained one of the most commercially successful punk acts in the German-speaking market.
Genre-blending metal/rap/hardcore. Signed to Pure Noise Records.
Austin d-beat hardcore punk with furious Spanish-language vocals channeling the Finnish hardcore tradition.
Venomous Concept was formed in 2004 by Shane Embury of Napalm Death and Kevin Sharp of Brutal Truth, two of grindcore's most recognized musicians, who assembled the project as a direct tribute to their hardcore punk roots — particularly Poison Idea, Black Flag, and Japanese hardcore. The band plays stripped-down, fast hardcore punk at odds with the technical extremity of the members' primary bands, producing five studio albums on Season of Mist including Retroactive Abortion (2004), Kick Me Silly VCIII (2016), and The Good Ship Lollipop (2023).
Dallas crossover thrash/hardcore. Fast and furious since the early 80s.
Victims formed in Nyköping, Sweden in 1997 and became one of the most respected acts in the international d-beat and crust punk underground, drawing on Discharge, Motörhead, and 1980s American hardcore as primary influences. Over their career they released seven full-length albums on labels including Deathwish Inc., Tankcrimes, and Relapse Records, earning a reputation for unyielding intensity and ideological consistency. The band entered an indefinite hiatus in 2022.
Psychedelic-influenced hardcore punk merging early Boston hardcore aggression with 70s psych rock mysticism.
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