District 9 was a prominent New York Hardcore (NYHC) band from the Bronx, formed in the 1990s by vocalist Myke “Puerto Rican Myke” Rivera out of the ashes of the band Close Call. Known for releases like Schoolahardknox (1995), they were a staple of the mid-90s scene and featured in the classic N.Y.H.C. documentary. District 9 drew heavy stylistic inspiration from the authentic, organic intersection of 1990s hardcore and East Coast hip-hop culture.
Invoke is a heavy/beatdown hardcore band from Wilmington, North Carolina. They combine aggressive metallic bravado, heavy death metal riffage, and massive slow-down breakdowns. Their style reflects a blend of traditional 1990s/2000s metallic hardcore edge and extreme underground death metal influences.
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Top of the World is a contemporary Long Island hardcore (LIHC) band featuring members from other prominent underground acts like Private Mind, High Reach, Last Laugh, Liberate, and Raid. Known for a Queens-style groove hardcore sound.
Crime Square is an underground hardcore punk and beatdown band from the New York and New Jersey area. The group features seasoned veterans from prominent 1990s and 2000s east coast hardcore acts including Bulldoze, Skarhead, Crown of Thornz, and Agents of Man.
Palehorse is a metallic hardcore and crossover thrash band formed in New Milford, Connecticut, in 2003. They remain a staple of the Connecticut hardcore scene. They draw musical and lyrical inspiration from a blend of Bands like Integrity, Ringworm, Nuclear Assault, Slayer, Anthrax, Exodus, Leeway, Death Threat, Hatebreed, 100 Demons, Motörhead and more!
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Fools Game is a fast and heavy hardcore punk band from Pennsylvania featuring members connected to groups like Facewreck, Vomit Forth, and Shackled. Formed in 2020, they are known for an energetic East Coast sound inspired by 2000s hardcore.
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Michael Jordan Bonema (born October 13, 1998), known professionally as MIKE (stylized in all caps), is an American rapper, songwriter and record producer based in New York City. Bonema’s atypical upbringing, having experienced life in New Jersey, London, Philadelphia and New York City, has had an audible influence on his diverse and experimental music style.
Envision is a vegan straight-edge metallic hardcore band from Florida. Formed in the late 2010s, they combine 1990s East Coast hardcore style with melodic, heavy guitar work.
God’s Hate are a metallic hardcore band from Van Nuys, California co-founded by drummer/guitarist/composer Colin Young (Twitching Tongues) and vocalist/lyricist/professional wrestler Brody King.
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Corpse Pile is an underground brutal death metal and hardcore band hailing from Houston, Texas. Formed in 2019, the band has quickly built a reputation in the heavy music scene for their aggressive fusion of traditional death metal elements, heavy slam riffs, and visceral hardcore breakdowns.
Statement of Pride is an American straight-edge hardcore punk band from Pensacola, Florida. Formed in 2022, the group features musicians from other underground acts such as Payback, Off The Tracks, and Cradle To Grave. Statement of Pride draws their primary musical influences from 1990s and early 2000s hardcore and edge-metal. Specifically, the band cites heavy hitters such as Withstand, One King Down, Indecision, and other classic Youth Crew acts, combined with modern metallic breakdowns.
Volumes (sometimes stylized as VOLUMES) is an American progressive metalcore band formed in Los Angeles, California in 2009. Volumes blends progressive metalcore and djent with hip-hop, jazz, classical, and alternative. Their rhythmic groove and ambient, polyrhythmic soundscapes are heavily shaped by early inspirations like Meshuggah and Periphery (Misha Mansoor’s ‘Bulb’ project), as well as post-hardcore acts like The Chariot and The Bled.
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Living Weapon is an aggressive American metalcore and mathcore band based in Boston, Massachusetts. Formed as a heavy side project featuring members of prominent heavy underground acts like Vein.fm and Fleshwater.
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Cold As Life is an American hardcore band based in Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1988. Lyrical themes consisted of brutal depictions of the horrors of growing up and living in a city plagued with corruption, murder, drugs, depression and poverty, along with the tragedy of losing friends, family and bandmates to murder and drug abuse. Cold As Life drew musical influence from such bands as Negative Approach, Sheer Terror, Discharge, 4 Skins, Cro-Mags, Black Sabbath, and Slayer.
Mongrel is a crushing death metal/hardcore band from San Diego, California. Known for their heavy, grimey sound combining mid-90s death metal and late-90s hardcore. They draw heavily from old-school death metal, Swedish death metal (“swe-death”), and heavy beatdown. Their sonic identity marries 90s extreme metal with intense, metallic hardcore.
Rites of Spring was an American punk rock band from Washington, D.C., formed in late 1983. Along with Embrace and Beefeater, they were one of the mainstay acts of the 1985 Revolution Summer movement which took place within the Washington, D.C. hardcore punk scene. The personal nature of their lyrics put them at the forefront of the emerging emo genre. Rites of Spring are regarded as having “unknowingly created and defined” the emo subgenre of hardcore punk. They were influenced by Bands like Wire, Buzzcocks, The Smiths, Bob Dylan, Bad Brains, The Faith, Black Flag, Minutemen & other 1970s/1980s Punk, Post-Punk & Classic Rock.
Pull Your Card (often abbreviated as PYC) is a metallic beatdown hardcore band based out of Los Angeles, California. Their primary influences come from the gritty, heavy hardcore and metal scenes of the late 90s and early 00s. Citing bands like Throwdown, Terror, Gods Hate & Merauder as Hardcore Influences as well as many more!
Cropsey is a heavy metallic hardcore band proudly representing the Staten Island, New York hardcore (NYHC) scene. Known for their brutal, breakdown-heavy sound influenced by beatdown and thrash, the band takes its name from Staten Island’s infamous real-life boogeyman urban legend. They draw influence from Bands like Sick of It All, Agnostic Front, Biohazard, All Out War, Earth Crisis, This Is Hell & more!
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Of Temperament is a Long Island metallic hardcore and metalcore band that emerged as a prominent force in the local Long Island Hardcore (LIHC) underground scene. The band plays a heavy, driving style of metallic hardcore heavily influenced by classic late-90s and early-2000s metalcore.
Impurity (often styled as impurityhc) is a heavy metalcore/hardcore band from San Jose, California. Their modern, down-tuned metallic hardcore style is built on foundations laid by heavy-hitting regional acts like Sunami, Big Boy, and Extinguish.
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Merauder is an influential Brooklyn-based heavy metallic hardcore band formed in 1990. Widely regarded as the “Godfathers of Metalcore”, they shaped the 90s NYHC scene by fusing hardcore aggression with heavy metal riffing. Fronted by vocalist Jorge Rosado, their gritty, unrelenting sound reflects their New York inner-city roots. Merauder built their sound on a foundation of thrash, early death metal, and the gritty, groove-driven New York Hardcore (NYHC) scene. Key influences on the band’s metal-heavy riffing and dark guitar tones included Slayer, Celtic Frost, and Venom. Acts like the Cro-Mags, Carnivore, and Stigmata shaped the band’s hardcore roots and crossover appeal. And the heavy, stompy, and rhythmic “Brooklyn groove” popularized by local peers like Biohazard and Life of Agony heavily impacted their pacing and mosh breakdowns.
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Life’s End is a hardcore band from Massachusetts known for their intense, aggressive sound. The band features members from several other established hardcore acts, including Hard Target, Wisdom & War, Death Before Dishonor, and False Grip.
Killing Time is a New York hardcore band. From their beginnings in 1988, under the name Raw Deal, they went on to record two full-length albums and several EPs, singles, and compilation tracks. The band went through three hiatuses before formally disbanding in 1998. However, the band re-formed in 2006 and has been touring/playing since. Work on their third full-length album was completed in March 2009.
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Sin Against Sin is a brutal, heavy hardcore/mosh-metal supergroup formed in 2025 by members of bands like Adrienne, Opposition, and others. Known for a, high-energy, “mosh-first” sound reminiscent of All Out War, the group is co-fronted by Ethan Wahlberg and Alfredo Carvalho.
Blow Your Brains Out (BYBO) is a rising hardcore punk band based out of Tokyo and Kanagawa, Japan. Formed in the spring of 2019, the group has quickly built a reputation for delivering a heavy, aggressive style heavily influenced by classic New York Hardcore (NYHC).
Furia is a Colombian hardcore punk band formed in 2007 in Tunja, Boyacá. Known for a raw, heavy sound rooted in 80s hardcore and street punk, they are a staple of the Boyacá DIY scene.
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Sector is a prominent metallic hardcore band from Chicago, Illinois, formed in 2019. They are known for a heavy, “unhinged” sound that blends traditional hardcore with influences from death metal and hip hop.
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