Terrorist is an underground beatdown hardcore band from Pavia, Italy. They draw influence from Classic New York Hardcore, OG Beatdown Hardcore, Modern Heavy Hardcore, Slam Death Metal & Crossover Thrash Metal.
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Crooks Die Slow is a rising underground beatdown hardcore band based out of Highbridge, The Bronx, New York. Named after a classic 2017 track by legendary New York hardcore (NYHC) band Backtrack, the group officially formed and established their heavy, hip-hop-influenced beatdown style.
Backtrack was an American hardcore punk band from Long Island, New York, founded in 2008. Backtrack was heavily influenced by the classic New York Hardcore (NYHC) scene and early 2000s hardcore. The band modeled their aggressive, traditional sound on foundational groups like Warzone, Cro-Mags, Breakdown, Madball, Biohazard, Life of Agony, Killing Time, and Agnostic Front.
Fatimah Nyeema Warner (born September 18, 1991), known professionally as Noname, is an American rapper. She began rapping and performing slam poetry in 2010, and gained wider recognition in 2013 for her appearance on the track “Lost” from Chance the Rapper‘s mixtape Acid Rap. She released her debut mixtape, Telefone, in 2016 to critical acclaim. Her debut album, Room 25, was released in 2018 and received further acclaim. Noname is one third of the musical supergroup Ghetto Sage with rappers Smino and Saba. Since 2019, she has also run the Noname Book Club, which focuses on radical texts by authors of color. Noname’s unique blend of jazz rap and spoken word is shaped by Chicago blues legends, literary giants, and neo-soul innovators.
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The Martyr is a metalcore band formed in East Rutherford, New Jersey, that blends 2000s-style heavy guitar riffs with dynamic melodies, post-hardcore, and emo elements.
PRETENSE: A rising nu-metalcore band that made their live performance debut. They are known for blending the heavy breakdowns of hardcore punk with nu-metal and electronic elements.
Maximus NJ is an aggressive metalcore and hardcore band hailing from Hudson County, New Jersey. They are known for heavy breakdowns, chaotic energy, and driving riffs.
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Outcome is an aggressive five-piece hardcore band hailing from the Hudson Valley, New York, known for their intense live energy and contributions to the local “845” heavy music scene.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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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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).
No Retreat is a legendary beatdown hardcore band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, formed in 1993. They are best known for their heavy, metal-influenced sound and their seminal album, Rise of the Underdog (1999). The band was a prominent fixture in the East Coast hardcore scene until their breakup in 2003, shortly after the release of their second album, Pray For Peace. A staple of the Pennsylvania/East Coast hardcore scene. They were primarily influenced by their peers in the late 90s/early 2000s scene, specifically citing Krutch and Fury of Five as early, direct influences.
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.
Open Wound is a Christian beatdown hardcore band based in Tiffin, Ohio. Known for their heavy, groove-driven sound. They are heavily influenced by a mix of traditional hardcore, modern mosh-heavy styles, and Christian metalcore.
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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.
Michael Christmas is a rapper from Boston, Massachusetts, best known for his humorous, self-deprecating lyrics and “everyman” persona. Christmas’s music often explores themes of ordinary life, awkwardness, and pop culture, diverging from the more serious or aggressive styles traditional in East Coast hip-hop. Michael Christmas draws from a eclectic mix of hip-hop legends, jazz masters, and unconventional comedy figures. Redman, Ol’ Dirty Bastard (ODB), Ice Cube, Soulja Boy, Wiz Khalifa, The Cool Kids, Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Bernie Mac and John Belushi. Just to name a few.
Antoine Amari Reed (born December 24, 1987) is an American rapper better known by his stage name Sir Michael Rocks (or Mikey Rocks). He started his music career in 2005 as a member of the hip hop duo The Cool Kids, and later joined the groups All City Chess Club, the “super group” P.O.C. (Pulled Over by the Cops), and The Toothpick Clique. Heavily influenced by 1980s/90s hip-hop, Chicago rap legends, and eclectic, retro-futuristic sounds. Key influences include Outkast, Gorillaz, LL Cool J, Twista, Kanye West, and Common. His style, both as a solo artist and in The Cool Kids, blends minimalistic, 808-driven production with themes of fashion, nature, and, in his later work, more abstract, conceptual ideas.
