Austin art-punk/post-hardcore. Explosive live shows and ambitious, genre-defying records.

.Nema is a black metal and crust punk band from Detroit, Michigan, active since 1995 with roots in the city's hardcore scene. Across a demo, EP, and the 17-track full-length "Bring Our Curses Home" (1998), the band fused raw black metal tremolo picking with the d-beat urgency of crust punk. Their mid-90s output places them among the early American acts bridging extreme metal and punk.

10,000 Rambos is a grindcore and hardcore punk band from Cleveland, Ohio, active since 2015 and consistently prolific. Across four full-lengths and an EP — from their self-titled debut through 2025's "World War IV" — the band delivers short, caustic bursts of politically charged grindcore with a hardcore punk backbone. Their discography is a relentless document of fury, tackling societal rot with the speed and brevity the genre demands.

12 Point Buck was a death metal and hardcore punk band from New Jersey, active in the mid-1990s. Their 1995 release blended the ferocity of death metal with punk energy, featuring tracks like "SK8 Board" and "Flog" that reflected the era's crossover sensibilities. The band was part of the fertile New Jersey extreme music scene of the 90s.

Columbia/St. Louis, Missouri hardcore punk project. The surgical name implies precision violence from the Gateway City's punk underground.

Worcester, Massachusetts hardcore punk and post-metal project. The existentialist name channels the ever-present awareness of mortality through heavy, boundary-crossing music from central Massachusetts.

Buffalo, New York hardcore punk and thrash hybrid. The comparative name promises something beyond ordinary darkness from Western New York's hardscrabble scene.

Massachusetts sludge metal and hardcore punk project. Spectral visions rendered in crushing heaviness from the Bay State.

A Hanging is a hardcore punk and thrash metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, active since 2015 with five releases. The band plays short, violent bursts of crossover aggression rooted in both punk fury and thrash precision. Named after the George Orwell essay, their music carries a grim, politically charged undercurrent fitting for a band born in post-Katrina New Orleans.

A Pregnant Light is a prolific post-black metal and hardcore project from Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mastermind Damian Master has released an enormous body of work blending black metal with post-punk, shoegaze, and hardcore influences, maintaining a relentless output of singles, EPs, and full-lengths that defy easy categorization.

Milford, Connecticut grindcore, hardcore punk, and powerviolence project. A trio of aggressive genres from small-town Connecticut.

Absent Mind is a thrash metal and hardcore band from Chicago, Illinois. Across two EPs — 2016's "Brainwaves" and 2019's "Weight of the World" — the band fuses crossover thrash intensity with hardcore punk urgency.

Heavy Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.

Furious Black / Thrash Metal, Punk from El Paso.

New York City crossover thrash, hardcore punk, and thrash metal project. The name promises catalytic energy from the city that never stops.