Kansas City death-hardcore act Tombseeker represent one of the newest projects in the Missouri underground, formed in 2026 to channel the collision of metallic death heaviness and hardcore's uncompromising aggression.

San Francisco's Tomes have been threading doom metal's crush through a thrash and hardcore framework since 2014, producing music that carries Bay Area aggression in its bones while slowing things down enough to feel genuinely oppressive.

Santa Fe, New Mexico's Torn Between Worlds, active since 2013, occupies an unusual space between avant-garde metal and hardcore, building dissonant and unpredictable structures that resist easy categorization. Their high-desert southwestern setting lends their experimental approach a distinctive outsider quality.

Santa Cruz, California's Torture Hammer formed in 2024, welding death metal's heaviness to hardcore's aggression and urgency — a young band working at the collision point of two extreme traditions.

New York crossover outfit Total Waste formed in 2023, bringing together the fury of hardcore punk and the riff aggression of thrash metal into a sound built for the pit and the chaos of the underground live circuit.

St. Louis's Towering Filth, active since 2011, fuse the ugliness of sludge metal with black metal's hostility and hardcore's stripped-down fury, arriving at a sound that is deliberately abrasive, confrontational, and indifferent to genre boundaries.

Denton, Texas's Trap Lord barrel through crossover thrash and hardcore with reckless abandon — fast, ugly, and deliberately obnoxious, thriving in the fertile DIY scene of Denton's college-town underground since 2017.

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North Huntingdon, Pennsylvania's Travesty have been grinding out crossover thrash since 1988, making them one of the longer-surviving acts in a tradition that prizes speed, aggression, and a firm refusal to separate metal from its hardcore roots.

Portland death-grind trio active since 2018, fusing the blunt brutality of grindcore with death metal heft and hardcore's confrontational attitude. Their name and approach are blunt instruments by design.

World War Metal from Austin featuring members of Imprecation and Morbosidad. Debut full-length Commandoccult released 2022 on Godz Ov War Productions.

Atlanta, Georgia act formed in 2020, fusing black metal's corrosive tremolo assault with the confrontational aggression of hardcore punk — a combination central to the blackened hardcore movement gaining traction in the American underground.

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.