Portland's Hammered Grunts have been a fixture of the Pacific Northwest's crossover scene since 2012, smashing thrash and hardcore together with the anarchic energy of a backyard show that ran way too long.

Hailing from Alice, deep in South Texas, Hammerwhore have been tearing up the crossover thrash and punk-metal underground since 2013 — raw, aggressive, and completely indifferent to outside approval.

Las Vegas's Hand of Doubt slam crossover thrash, hardcore, and straight-up metal together into something that sounds like a pit fight with a soundtrack — relentless and confrontational since 2019.

Boston's Hara Kiri bring the crossover thrash tradition to one of America's great punk cities, their tightly coiled songs drawing equally from the ferocity of hardcore and the technical aggression of thrash since 2017.

Chicago's Hate Force have been dealing death metal from the city's hard-edged underground since 2014. Straightforward in their mission, they favor dense, grinding execution over experimentation — Midwestern death metal with industrial-city backbone.

Western Massachusetts's Hate the Adversary have been pushing crossover thrash into groove metal territory since 2019, resulting in music that hits as hard as it moves. There's a regional punk-meets-metal pedigree behind the attack.

Devastating Death Metal / Crossover from Dallas.

Los Angeles crossover outfit Haunted Garage slam thrash metal and hardcore together with the irreverence and raw energy of a band that clearly had as much fun making the music as they expect the crowd to have hearing it.

Winston-Salem's Headripper launched in 2020 with crossover thrash in their blood and hardcore fury in their lungs, making them one of North Carolina's most promising new practitioners of the genre. Their approach is fast, ugly, and deliberately unrefined in all the right ways.

Blistering Crossover / Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Madison, Wisconsin's Imminent Attack evolved from their hardcore punk origins into a full-throttle crossover thrash beast, landing somewhere between D.R.I. and early Slayer with Midwest grit to spare.

Minneapolis crossover outfit In Defence have been thrashing since 2007 with a punk-fueled speed and a midwestern directness — short songs, faster riffs, and absolutely zero patience for posturing.

Ferocious Death / Thrash Metal from Bozeman, Montana / Richmond, Virginia / Houston.

Austin's finest heavy crossover. 'The Sleeping Eye' is a masterpiece.

New Haven, Connecticut's Jasta — the solo project of Hatebreed vocalist Jamey Jasta — channels his hardcore roots into a harder-edged metalcore and thrash crossover format, delivering the kind of aggressive, anthemic material that has long made him a figurehead of the American heavy underground.