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.
Summer Marjani Walker (born April 11, 1996) is an American singer and songwriter. Walker was born and raised in Atlanta. Summer Walker draws heavy musical inspiration from 1990s and 2000s R&B icons, neo-soul pioneers, and blues-infused soul singers. Her raw, vulnerable storytelling echoes the emotional depth of legends like Mary J. Blige, Erykah Badu, and Amy Winehouse.
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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.
Patrick G. Morales (born October 21, 1993), better known by his stage nameWiki, is an American rapper and record producer. He was a member of New York City-based hip-hop group Ratking with rapper-producer Sporting Life and rapper Hak, which disbanded in 2016. Morales was also a member of Secret Circle with rapper Antwon and rapper-producer Lil Ugly Mane until 2018.
Reminitions is a heavy California deathcore band from the Temecula and Corona areas. They play aggressive, nostalgic Myspace-era deathcore featuring brutal breakdowns, blast beats, and gang chants. Reminitions blends heavy slam, beatdown hardcore, and MySpace-era deathcore. Band members have stated that their overall sound draws inspiration from classic melodic death metal and heavy modern deathcore acts like The Black Dahlia Murder and Thy Art Is Murder, alongside heavy-hitting contemporary groups such as Within Destruction and Analepsy.
Sleeping with Sirens is an American rock band from Orlando, Florida, currently residing in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Sleeping With Sirens draws musical inspiration from 1990s and 2000s punk, emo, and post-hardcore acts like The Used, Green Day, blink-182, Rancid, The Starting Line, Finch, Copeland & Early pop records and vocal styles from artists like Paula Abdul and the broader Drive-Thru Records scene.
Orlando Tobias Edward Higginbottom (born 7 March 1986), known professionally as TEED (formerly known as Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs), is a British electronic musicproducer, DJ and singer-songwriter based in the United States. He draws musical influences from a wide palette spanning early ’80s Prince and Minneapolis funk, French pop, Chicago house, UK garage, and ambient pioneers like Ryuichi Sakamoto, alongside classic artists like Mylene Farmer, Marianne Faithfull, and Satoshi Tomiie.
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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I Passed Away is an independent underground music artist and producer known for cloud rap, emo rap, and ambient instrumental projects. He draws heavily from the emotional depth and vocal styles of early late-2010s emo-rap pioneers such as Lil Peep, XXXTENTACION, and alternative/goth underground figures like ITSOKTOCRY and BEXEY.
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.
Basement are an English rock band formed in Ipswich, Suffolk, in 2009. They have been categorized as alternative rock, emo, post-hardcore, and soft grunge. Their key influences include American post-hardcore and indie bands like Mineral, Sunny Day Real Estate, and Jimmy Eat World, as well as shoegaze acts like Autolux, grunge pioneers Failure, and punk bands such as Jawbreaker.
Traitors is an American deathcore band formed in Tampa, Florida, in 2013. Known for pioneering the sludgy, downtempo deathcore genre. Their primary influences stem from slam death metal, early 2010s deathcore, and heavy beatdown. Bands like Emmure, Bodysnatcher, and King Conquer laid the foundational groundwork for Traitors’ signature slow, sludgy tempo and crushing, chug-heavy breakdowns. Acts like Whitechapel and older heavy metal scenes influenced their rhythm, song structure, and the articulation of their bleak lyricism.
Sugarcult is an American pop-punk and alternative rock band formed in Santa Barbara, California, in 1998. The band rose to prominence in the early 2000s, driven by infectious power-pop hooks, high-energy anthems, and prominent rotation on MTV and teen movie soundtracks. Sugarcult has been categorized as punk rock, pop-punk, power pop and alternative rock. Sugarcult blended 1990s pop-punk (e.g., Blink-182) with 1970s and 1980s melodic power-pop and punk. Frontman Tim Pagnotta and the band cite acts like The Beatles, The Clash, and Elvis Costello as key songwriting influences, along with the punk stylings of the Ramones.
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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.
Michael Eugene Archer (February 11, 1974 – October 14, 2025), better known by his stage name D’Angelo (/diˈændʒəloʊ/), was an American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer. Widely regarded as a pioneer of the neo-soul movement. D’Angelo‘s pioneering sound is rooted in 1970s funk (Sly Stone, James Brown), classic soul (Marvin Gaye), and Pentecostal gospel. He also heavily integrated the improvisational elements of jazz and the syncopated, lo-fi rhythms of 1990s East Coast hip-hop, citing icons like Prince and Jimi Hendrix as monumental inspirations.
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.
Sonic Youth was an American rock band formed in New York City in 1981. Sonic Youth emerged from the experimental no wave art and music scene in New York before evolving into a more conventional rock band and becoming a prominent member of the American noise rock scene. Sonic Youth has been praised for having “redefined what rock guitar could do” using a wide variety of unorthodox guitar tunings while preparing guitars with objects like drumsticks and screwdrivers to alter the instruments’ timbre. The band was a pivotal influence on the alternative and indie rock movements. Influences vary from Genres like Avant-Garde & No Wave to Prototypical Punk & Garage Rock featuring bands like The Velvet Underground, The Stooges & MC5, New York Dolls & Patti Smith Group to Hardcore Punk & Post-Punk featuring bands like Black Flag, The Fall & Wire to Music Artists/Groups like Madonna, Public Enemy, Neil Young/Crazy Horse, & Joni Mitchell.
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.
Jonathan H. Smith(born January 17, 1971), better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper and record producer. Regarded as a progenitor of the club-oriented hip-hop subgenre crunk, his production and voice presence were instrumental in the genre’s commercial breakthrough in the early 2000s. He was also the frontman of the group Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz, with whom he has released five albums.
Lil Jon & the East Side Boyz were an influential Atlanta-based hip hop group that pioneered and popularized the crunk genre in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Formed in 1997, the trio consisted of Lil Jon (Jonathan Smith), Big Sam (Sam Norris), and Lil Bo (Wendell Neal). They became known for their hyper-energetic, “shouted” call-and-response hooks and bass-heavy production.
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.
Isn’t it funny how nobody talks about how trans kids who weren’t fortunate enough to grow up in a loving supportive environment and are forced to go through the wrong puberty. Forced to endure humiliation, bullying, and thoughts of suicide… Forced to watch their bodies develop in the exact opposite way. Is traumatizing.
But everyone has an opinion as to how they should look and act while going through a SECOND puberty. Ridicule US and call us “imposters” like completely discrediting Who We Are mind body and soul
EVERYBODY is worried about how trans people have SEX or what body parts do trans people still have or are they going to have surgery or do they need to have surgery or they don’t look passable enough or what does it mean for “ME” if I have sex with a trans person.
Once again invalidating us as human beings and furthermore looking at us based on our body parts and have the audacity to say that a trans woman isn’t really a woman or a trans man isn’t really a man
FUCK OUT OF HERE
We have to go through soooooo much to get a ounce of the respect, compassion, rights, equality, respect, understanding, and Soul searching to be THE MEN AND WOMEN WE ARE BORN TO BEGIN WITH!
Do you know why high school is hard for everybody?
Because everybody is going through hormonal changes that are shaping and developing themselves as their learning social skills and behaviors to be able to be a functioning member of society add that to a trans person who is forced into conforming to the opposite gender of the one that they were born to begin with, and are beaten abused bullied humiliated disrespected if they don’t conform.
And when “I” say BORN this way, it is because transgender people are BORN this way I’m not talkin “Lady Gaga”
I’m talking real shit!
We Now have an understanding in 2019 that some women are born with penises and some men are born with vaginas.
Let’s be clear that we all start out as female as embryos to begin with, The mutation is to become male. Which is another topic.
It is no longer just true that only cisgender women are women,
There are cisgender women and There are transgender women
It is no longer true that only cisgender men are men,
There are cisgender men and There are transgender men
And for all of you crying oh what does this mean, oh does this mean there’s more than two genders? Oh I’m I’m so used to believing that only cisgender people existed in the world oh what do I do
The Native Americans names Transgender ppl Best
Two Spirit
And this was centuries ago so for all those who say oh this is new Oh it’s an explosion all all the sudden everybody’s trans…. Nooooo.. we have been here from the beginning we will be here no matter what and stop worrying about our fucking body parts…
For those who DO want to help and are an ally.
STAND WITH US!
PROTECT US!
VOTE FOR EQUALITY FOR ALL!
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IT’S COMMON THAT BLACK PEOPLE ARE OPPRESSED & LIMITED TO GANG CULTURE, CARIBBEAN CULTURE, & HIP HOP CULTURE WHILE WHITE PEOPLE ARE WELCOMED IN ALL CULTURES WITHOUT SO MUCH QUESTIONING & REJECTION COMPARED TO A BLACK PERSON TRYING SOMETHING NEW & UNIQUE LIKE SKATEBOARDING OR SOMETHING THAT IS SADLY WHITEWASHED.
MUSIC CULTURE IS SOMETHING THAT’S NOT BASED ON THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN BUT THE EXPRESSION OF YOUR TRUE AND RAW EMOTIONS & THAT’S WHY MUSIC IS SO ATTRACTIVE NO MATTER WHAT KIND OF MUSIC UNLESS YOU ARE BIASED OR WHITEWASHED. IT IS TRUE SOME MUSIC IS AN ACQUIRED TASTE, BUT IF YOU ARE OPEN-MINDED AND WILLING, YOU WILL LEARN TO LOVE A MUSIC CULTURE JUST LIKE HOW WHITE PEOPLE LEARN TO LOVE OTHER PEOPLE’S CULTURES. THAT WAS A JOKE, BUT IT IS TRUE. WE HAVE TO REALLY EDUCATE OURSELVES & REALLY LEARN OTHERS AS MUCH AS WE SHOULD LEARN OURSELVES AND APPRECIATE ONE ANOTHER.
BUT, GOING BACK TO MUSIC CULTURES. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DOING DIFFERENT KIND OF MUSIC CULTURES FOR A LONG TIME. THE CREATION OF SCATTING INSPIRED JAZZ & BLUES, & OTHER MUSIC CULTURES. PRAYER AND COMMUNITY SONGS DURING SLAVERY INSPIRED GOSPEL MUSIC & OTHER SING ALONG KIND OF MUSIC LIKE THAT. JIMMY HENDRIX, JAMES BROWN, BAD BRAINS & OTHER OLD SCHOOL BLACK ARTISTS LIKE THEMSELVES INSPIRED HIP HOP, PUNK, METAL, AND SO MUCH MORE!
BLACK MODERN ARTISTS LIKE AARON HEARD & ANDRE 3000 ARE CARRYING THE TORCH FOR THE PROGRESSION OF BLACK PEOPLE IN DIFFERENT CULTURES.
ANDRE 3000 ON THE LEFT / AARON HEARD ON THE RIGHT
AARON HEARD IS A VOCALIST FOR A HARDCORE BAND NAMED JESUS PIECE(WHICH STARTED OUT AS A SUB-GENRE OF PUNK MUSIC BUT NOW HAS ITS OWN CULTURE AND AESTHETIC & GOT COMBINED WITH METAL MUSIC AS THE MUSIC GOT HEAVIER SOUNDING & LESS TRADITIONAL PUNK-ISH, SO SOMETIMES CAN BE REFERRED TO AS “HEAVY METAL” EVEN THOUGH HARDCORE IS MORE OF ITS OWN MUSIC CULTURE BUT YOU CAN LEAVE A COMMENT AND WE CAN DISCUSS THAT. NOW ENJOY THIS VIDEO!
ANDRE 3000 IS A HIP HOP ARTIST. HE IS PART OF A HIP HOP GROUP CALLED OUTKAST. HE’S NOT A NEW AGE HIP HOP ARTIST LIKE TRAVIS SCOTT OR LIL UZI VERT BUT HE IS STILL A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF WHAT IS “BLACK EXCELLENCE” AND WHAT HIP HOP IS TRULY ABOUT OR AT LEAST WHAT IT ORIGINATED FROM AND HE IS STILL MAINTAINING AND SHARING THE TORCH AMONGST HIS PEERS NEW AND OLD NO MATTER WHAT CULTURE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY BELONG TO.
MUSIC IS LIKE A NOTEBOOK, IT CAN BE OPENED AND WRITTEN BY ANYONE THAT WANTS TO WRITE IN IT.
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