San Francisco band founded in 2020 that fuses brutal death metal with hardcore aggression, channeling the Bay Area's long tradition of punishing crossover extremity.

Davenport, Iowa act formed in 2014 that melds thrash and death metal with hardcore aggression, delivering a crossover-inflected assault shaped by the Midwest's DIY underground.

Island Heights, New Jersey thrash and hardcore punk band formed in 2023, fusing crossover aggression with old-school punk energy in the tradition of East Coast crossover thrash.

New York crossover thrash and hardcore band formed in 2024, channeling the raw, circle-pit energy of early thrash and punk-metal fusion into a modern register.

New York death metal and hardcore band formed in 2017, combining the guttural violence of death metal with the antagonistic energy of hardcore punk in a deliberately provocative package.

SOT is a New York sludge, doom, and hardcore hybrid band formed in 2011, fusing the oppressive heaviness of sludge and doom metal with the confrontational energy of hardcore punk.

Soul Divided is a Louisville, Kentucky crossover thrash band formed in 2017, blending the aggression of hardcore punk with thrash metal riffing in the tradition of classic crossover acts.

Southern Tongues is an Ohio death metal and hardcore band formed in 2019, bringing the visceral collision of extreme metal and hardcore aggression that defined bands working the boundary between the two genres in the American underground.

Spaisekult is a Vermont-based progressive sludge metal and hardcore band formed in 2022. They meld the caustic, slow-burning density of sludge metal with hardcore's propulsive urgency and progressive metal's structural ambition, operating on the experimental edge of all three genres.