Metalcore band from Union City, New Jersey, formed in 2014, delivering the genre's hallmark combination of punishing breakdowns and melodic hooks with a Northeast underground edge.

Metalcore band from Columbus, Ohio, formed in 2022, operating within the modern metalcore landscape with a sound that balances melody and aggression.

Systematic Failure is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Yreka, California, formed in 2017, blending the melodic sensibility and twin-guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the rhythmic intensity of metalcore.

Tallah formed in Pennsylvania in 2017, co-founded by drummer Max Portnoy (son of Mike Portnoy) and guitarist Derrick Schneider, with vocalist Justin Bonitz joining in 2018. Signed to Earache Records, the band released the concept album Matriphagy in 2020, blending nu-metal and metalcore influences drawn from Slipknot, Korn, and Linkin Park, followed by The Generation of Danger (2022) and Primeval: Obsession // Detachment (2025). Portnoy received the Modern Drummer Award for Best Up and Coming Drummer in 2019.

Austin's Taverner occupy the volatile space where metalcore collides with powerviolence and grindcore, a combination that makes their music as chaotic as the city's music scene is eclectic. Formed in 2016, they channel the blistering pace of powerviolence into song structures that occasionally open up just long enough to crush you with a metalcore breakdown before pulling the floor out again.

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Tetrarch formed in Atlanta, Georgia in 2007 when guitarists Diamond Rowe and Josh Fore began collaborating in middle school, evolving from a thrash-influenced early sound into a nu-metal and metalcore hybrid that helped drive the nu-metal revival of the late 2010s. Their 2017 debut full-length Freak, produced by Dave Otero, introduced polished production that balanced heavy riffing with melodic choruses, followed by Unstable (2021) and The Ugly Side of Me (2023). Diamond Rowe is among the few Black women to front a nationally recognized heavy metal act.

Hard-hitting Groove Metal / Metalcore out of Texas.

Formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2000, The Agony Scene emerged from the Christian metalcore underground, initially drawing comparisons to Zao and Overcome before signing with Solid State Records. Their Roadrunner Records debut The Darkest Red (2005) broadened their audience with a punishing metalcore sound threaded with melodic death metal riffing and vocalist Mike Williams' raw delivery. The band released Get Damned on Century Media in 2007, went dormant for years, and returned with Tormentor in 2018 before announcing a fifth album in 2025.