Trappist formed in California around 2014 as a collaborative project between Chris Dodge of Spazz and Infest, Phil Vera of Despise You and (16), and Ryan Harkins, initially as a two-piece before expanding. The band's entire thematic premise is craft beer culture, rendered through Discharge-influenced d-beat, crust punk, powerviolence, and hardcore played at punishing speeds. Their debut full-length Ancient Brewing Tactics (2018) comprised 21 tracks in 33 minutes and featured guest appearances from Tony Foresta of Municipal Waste and Steve Brooks of Torche. The project operates as a side outlet for members with extensive histories in the American hardcore underground.

Brooklyn's Trenchgrinder have been a fixture in the New York underground since 2011, channeling death metal brutality, thrash velocity, and crust punk filth into a sound built for the pit. Their approach is confrontational and unpolished in the best tradition of the borough's extreme metal lineage.

True Illusion is a Hutchinson, Kansas band formed in 2020 that blends melodic groove metal, thrash, and metalcore influences into a driving, riff-centered sound.

Pittsburgh's Vicious Blade fuse thrash's teeth-bared aggression with the street-level fury of crust punk, a combination that sounds exactly as ugly and relentless as the name suggests. Formed in 2020, they carry the blue-collar menace of their city's industrial past directly into the pit.

Denver's Victim of Fire scorch through the boundary between death metal and crust punk, letting both sides burn at equal intensity. Founded in 2019 at a mile-high altitude, their sound carries the breathless, frantic energy of both underground traditions.

Columbus, Ohio grindcore and death metal band formed in 2016, fusing the genre's velocity and crust punk's anarchic rawness with death metal's low-end devastation. Rooted in Columbus's scrappy DIY underground, Voice of Crows produce music with both political sharpness and physical force, treating brevity and brutality as equally essential tools.

Voidhämmer emerged from Long Beach in 2026 dragging the grime of crust punk straight into the decomposing mouth of death metal. Their sound is all blunt force and corroded edges — d-beat propulsion colliding with churning, low-tuned riffs that owe as much to Discharge as to early Entombed. A new band with old hatreds, and no interest in being pleasant about it.

Denver's Vulgarian have been fusing crust punk's antagonism with the slow-burning weight of sludge metal since 2020. The collision suits the mile-high city well — equal parts driving rage and heavy, oxygen-thin atmosphere.

Dallas, Texas act blending the caustic filth of crust punk with raw black metal, delivering the kind of lo-fi, abrasive material that draws equally from d-beat and primitive second-wave kvlt aesthetics. Formed in 2023, they represent a scrappy underground presence in the DFW scene.