Hartford, Vermont's Half Past Human have been delivering metalcore since 2017, standing out simply by virtue of flying the flag in a state not typically associated with the genre. Earnest, aggressive, and built for small venues.

Winona, Minnesota's Harbinger blend groove and thrash metal into a mid-sized town sound with outsized bite, active since 2015 in a state with a fierce and underappreciated metal pedigree.

Milwaukee's Harlots have spent two decades sharpening the intersection of metalcore and technical death metal into something genuinely punishing. Formed in 2004, they bring the rhythmic punch of the former and the surgical precision of the latter in equal measure.

Chicago's Harm's Way formed in 2006 as a powerviolence side project before evolving into a full-time act rooted in industrial-tinged metalcore. Signing to Metal Blade Records, the band released Posthuman (2018) and Common Suffering (2023), both of which demonstrated a progressive widening of their sonic palette beyond hardcore's usual constraints. Their trajectory from Crossed Out-influenced grind to groove-heavy metalcore has earned them a dedicated following across both punk and metal circles.

Birmingham, Alabama's Haste formed in 1995 and occupied a space where post-hardcore, metalcore, and emo intersected. The band released three albums — Pursuit in the Face of Consequence (1999), When Reason Sleeps (2001), and The Mercury Lift (2003) — before disbanding in 2007. The Mercury Lift in particular drew comparisons to the atmospheric post-hardcore of Quicksand and Hum, and the band is remembered as a defining act of the early 2000s regional heavy music scene.

Mount Laurel's Hate Breeder, formed in 2024, navigate the space between melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication and metalcore's structural punch. A fresh entry in New Jersey's growing extreme metal scene.

Akron's Hate Theory have been working the fertile middle ground between death metal and metalcore since 2017, building a sound with the brutality of the former and the structural hooks of the latter. Ohio's industrial heritage informs their heavy, purposeful approach.

Hard-hitting metalcore from San Marcos.

Rancho Cucamonga's Havocxx fuse the melodic leads of Gothenburg death metal with the chug and breakdown vocabulary of metalcore, a hybrid approach that's been their calling card since 2017. The tension between the two styles gives their Inland Empire take on the crossover sound its kinetic edge.