Turok is a blackened death metal and hardcore band from Pompano Beach, Florida, formed in 2006, fusing the ferocity of hardcore with black and death metal extremity into a compact, violent package.

Twenty Third Chapter is a death metal and hardcore band from Bloomington, Indiana, formed in 1997, fusing metallic hardcore's directness with death metal's extremity over nearly three decades of underground activity.

Twisted Dream is a Florida hardcore and sludge metal band formed in 2018, merging the intensity and aggression of hardcore punk with the slow, oppressive weight of sludge metal into a raw and volatile sound.

UltraMantis Black is a hardcore band formed in 2014 by professional wrestler and musician UltraMantis Black alongside members of noise-rock group Pissed Jeans. The band's debut self-titled EP was recorded that same year and released on Sub Pop, combining grindcore intensity with hardcore punk aggression. Two subsequent full-lengths on Relapse Records continued the project, which has paired physical showmanship with explicitly political themes around animal rights and environmental activism.

Veteran San Diego outfit Unbroken have existed in the space between hardcore and metalcore since 1993, outlasting countless trends and scene shifts through sheer conviction. One of the longer-running acts in the American hardcore-adjacent underground, they bring decades of battle-hardened intensity.

Wilmington, Delaware's Vicious Embrace have spent a decade weaponizing the collision between hardcore's raw aggression and metalcore's technical drive. The band's name doubles as a mission statement — they pull you close and then punish you for it.

New York's Vise Massacre has been hammering out hardcore-thrash crossover since 2012, embodying the no-nonsense collision of punk attitude and metal precision that the genre has always promised. Their sound is built for small rooms and large amounts of sweat — stripped down, fast, and combative in the best tradition of the New York underground.

Morgantown, West Virginia's Vulgar Royalty formed in 2021 with a sound that collapses grindcore, hardcore, and sludge metal into one misanthropic heap. The combination gives their music a relentless forward momentum shot through with the kind of slow, grinding dread that sludge does best.

Walls of Jericho formed in Detroit, Michigan in 1998, fronted by vocalist Candace Kucsulain, and became a significant force in early 2000s metalcore through a sound that balanced old-school hardcore, thrash metal, and the chug-driven heaviness of the genre's emerging wave. The band released a series of albums on Trustkill Records, including All Hail the Dead (2004) and With Devils Amongst Us All (2006), before a lengthy hiatus and return with No One Can Save You from Yourself (2016). Kucsulain's commanding presence made Walls of Jericho one of the most visible female-fronted acts in the hardcore and metalcore underground.