Philadelphia's Chopped Up blend death metal violence with grind efficiency and hardcore swagger, keeping things fast and ugly in the tradition of Philly's combative underground. Short and brutal.

Pittsburgh hardcore/thrash band fusing the aggression of crossover with steel-city grit. Short, fast songs and a no-frills attack reflect the working-class intensity of Pennsylvania's underground.

Pittsburgh's Contrived occupy the rough intersection of death metal brutality and hardcore punk aggression, channeling the industrial city's working-class grit into pummeling, no-frills metal. Their sound favors groove and impact over technical showmanship.

Allentown, Pennsylvania's Controller ride the crossover thrash tradition hard, fusing hardcore punk's urgency with thrash metal's riff-driven ferocity in the vein of classic East Coast acts. Their live energy and no-nonsense attitude have made them a reliable presence in the regional underground.

Titusville, Pennsylvania's Crowbra carves out a genuinely strange niche, fusing industrial metal's mechanical menace with black metal atmospherics and hardcore's confrontational energy. Abrasive and uncompromising, they resist easy categorization.

Pittsburgh black metal and hardcore band fusing the raw intensity of black metal with the DIY directness of hardcore. Cydonia brings a confrontational, stripped-down edge to extreme metal from the Pittsburgh underground.