El Paso, Texas metalcore project. Border city aggression at the western tip of the Lone Star State.

Spring Valley, Illinois/Globe, Arizona metalcore project spanning the Midwest and Southwest. The alias-referencing name adds identity play to their cross-country aggression.

Denver metalcore project named after the Egyptian god of the necropolis. Ancient funerary rites through modern aggression.

San Luis Obispo, California groove metal/metalcore act from the Central Coast. Today We Fight delivers the muscular riffing and breakdown-heavy approach that defined early 2010s metalcore.

Lakeland, Florida groove metal/metalcore act with four releases spanning 2014-2019. Their Central Florida sound balances groove-driven heaviness with metalcore's dynamic shifts and melodic hooks.

Minneapolis death metal and grindcore hybrid that emerged in 2010 with the Fear & Coercion EP. The band fuses blistering speed with metalcore breakdowns, drawing from the Twin Cities' long tradition of extreme music.

Oregon metalcore project. The gambling metaphor channels Pacific Northwest aggression through Russian roulette's deadly chance.

El Paso, Texas metalcore and thrash project named after the Anthrax album. Border city aggression paying tribute to Big Four legacy.

Oklahoma City metalcore project. The absent — lost or disappeared — channeled through aggressive music.

Seattle metalcore act arriving in 2025 with the Blood On Our Hands EP. Their name — Latin for 'love conquers' — sets up an interesting tension with the brutality of their sound, emerging from a Pacific Northwest scene that continues to breed boundary-pushing heavy bands.

Los Angeles metalcore project. Aquatic-sounding heaviness from the City of Angels.

Washington metalcore project.

Illinois metalcore and thrash hybrid whose 2019 debut The Phaneron — a philosophical term for the totality of experience — pairs cerebral ambition with physical aggression. Heavier music for the thinking mosher.

Oakland death metal and metalcore fusion named after the suborder containing dragonflies. Their 2018 debut Spawn of Odonata continues the entomological theme, building an insectoid mythology through aggressive, technically accomplished heavy music from the East Bay.

Carbondale, Illinois metalcore act with remarkable longevity, spanning 2005 to 2018. From their debut Images of Disgust to the much later Perpetual Fracture, they've endured through the genre's boom-and-bust cycle, anchored in Southern Illinois University's college-town scene.