Iowa City's Giving Up have been delivering crossover thrash with genuine punk conviction since 2007, blending the speed and riff-craft of thrash with the urgent, stripped-down energy of hardcore. The name sounds defeatist; the music sounds anything but.

Boston's Glacial Hell combine death metal's heaviness with hardcore's relentless forward aggression, producing music that's fast, confrontational, and brutally efficient. They've been part of the Massachusetts extreme underground since 2017.

Nashville's Gouged Out channel death metal's brutality through hardcore's confrontational urgency since 2023, producing something that hits with the bluntness of a fist rather than the technicality of a scalpel. Visceral and direct.

Longview, Washington's Grand Head fuse the slow-burn misery of doom metal with the blunt-force urgency of hardcore, and the collision sounds like a storm that won't let up. Since 2016 they've built a sound that's as heavy as it is relentless.

Houston's Grave Robbers have spent over a decade looting the crossover thrash and hardcore underground with gleeful ferocity, blending pit-ready mosh breaks with snarling thrash chops. Since 2011 they've been one of Texas's most reliable live weapons.

Boise, Idaho's Grave Titan combine the blunt physicality of hardcore with death metal's gravitational pull, creating music that hits with colossal, unrelenting force. Active since 2019, they bring a power-forward assault from a state rarely associated with extreme metal.

Portland's Grieven arrived in 2024 with a sound that bridges atmospheric post-black metal and hardcore's confrontational energy — introspective one moment and violently direct the next. It's a tension that feels native to the city and to the band.