These Cursed Hands emerged from Portland, Oregon in 2023 at the intersection of melodic death metal and metalcore, blending hook-driven songwriting with aggressive, technically precise riffing. Their approach leans into the melodic side of both genres, aiming for emotional impact alongside the brutality.

Formed in 2012 in Lake View, South Carolina, Thirst for Clarity pull from death metal brutality, groove-driven heaviness, and the melodic ambitions of progressive metalcore, building dense, layered songs that resist easy genre labels.

Out of Columbia, South Carolina since 2014, This Above All combine melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the punishing breakdowns of metalcore, crafting a sound that's both emotionally charged and physically heavy.

Springfield, Ohio's This Blessed Hatred fuse the mid-tempo chug of groove metal with the high-tension dynamics of metalcore, producing a sound built for impact on both the stage and the pit.

A Seattle metalcore band carrying the Pacific Northwest's history of heavy music, This Dying Hour have been grinding since 2006 with a style that balances melodic tension against hardcore-derived aggression.

A Richmond, Virginia metalcore band since 2016, This Present Darkness channel the city's storied heavy music scene into dense, aggressive compositions built on thick riffs and high-contrast dynamic shifts.

Daytona Beach's This Solemn Vow have been sharpening their metalcore-meets-thrash attack since 2014, bringing a riff-forward intensity that leans into speed and groove in equal measure.

From Prestonsburg, a small town in Eastern Kentucky's coal country, This Town Has Ghosts channel melodic death metal hooks and metalcore heft into music that feels rooted in both regional identity and broader extremity.

Los Angeles, California metalcore act formed in 2022, entering a city with an enormous and competitive heavy music scene and aiming to carve out space within contemporary metalcore's blend of crushing breakdowns and melodic tension.