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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Head Cage (2018)
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Featured Power Metal Album
The Second Coming (1988)
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New York's Combust tear through crossover thrash with hardcore's urgency and metal's muscle, keeping the tradition of NYHC brutality alive in a fast, chaotic form. Their sound is tight, aggressive, and built for live destruction.
Waterbury, Connecticut's Communal Misery smash death metal and hardcore into each other with the fury of a band with nothing to prove and everything to destroy. Their sound carries the working-class anger of a post-industrial New England city.
San Antonio, Texas's Con Carnage charge through a cross-section of death metal, grindcore, and hardcore, channeling the Lone Star State's underground aggression into fast, frenzied attacks.
Pomona, California brutal death metal act merging hardcore aggression with suffocating death metal brutality. Their punishing sound reflects the intensity of the Southern California underground.
Pittsfield, Massachusetts groove/thrash act combining the groove metal heaviness of the early 1990s with hardcore attitude and thrash metal momentum. A heavy-hitting presence in the Western Mass underground.
Pittsburgh hardcore/thrash band fusing the aggression of crossover with steel-city grit. Short, fast songs and a no-frills attack reflect the working-class intensity of Pennsylvania's underground.
Tulsa's Constant Peril channel death metal, grindcore, and hardcore into a high-velocity assault that burns short and hot, drawing from Oklahoma's scrappy underground to produce raw, confrontational noise.
Baltimore's Constituents blend grindcore's velocity with death metal's weight and hardcore's confrontational edge, channeling the working-class grit of the Maryland scene into short, furious blasts of aggression.
Los Angeles, California crossover thrash band fusing the speed and aggression of thrash metal with hardcore punk's raw energy and attitude. Their LA origins place them in a long lineage of West Coast bands that bridged the two worlds.
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