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Here is the page of the best of the best Pittsburgh Hardcore bands. Click on each link to see a page devoted to each band along with information on the band. There are still many bands to be added but this is taking a while.

 

Pittsburgh Hardcore Bands


Current Bands

Built Upon Frustration
Probably the hardest band to ever come out of Pittsburgh

Crowd Deterrent
The Youngstown, OH hardcore legends that are more important to Pittsburgh than you are

Death Follows Daybreak
Melodic metalcore with a style similar to Zao, formerly Prototype 7 of Butler, PA

End Of Humanity
Taking the hardest metal riffs thrown together with the toughest hardcore riffs

From A Second Story Window
Spastic, chaotic, technical metalcore coming from Sharon, PA on Black Market Activities

Kamikabe
Technical and melodic metal that sounds like it's coming from overseas similar to The Year Of Our Lord, but from Greensburg

Lacking Restraint
The mainstay band of Natrona Heights, PA that's been playing fast hardcore punk for over 6 years

Robinson
Recently reformed and now spastic and grindy as fuck metal ... from all over Western PA

The Caulfield Principle
Harsh, yet sometimes melodic, metalcore for fans of As Hope Dies or Endthisday, includes many beatdowns

The Zimmermann Note
Thrashy, fast, black metal attack featuring ex-Better Off Dead, Commit Suicide, & Broken Free

Today Is The Grave
Fast, negative, and sometimes melodic hardcore featuring ex-Suffer The Fate & Waiting The Storm

Unreal City
Formerly Nothing Sacred, ex-members of Drain This Blood and Crowded Tombs bring you Integrity influenced hardcore



Past Bands


Armed Battery
True school hardcore coming from the Mercer area for fans of Bridge 9 style bands

Broken Free
Melodic and technical metalcore along the lines of Killswitch Engage or Shadows Fall

Drain This Blood
Tough fucking hardcore that isn't too beatdown or too old school, comparable to Dead Wrong

Endless
Pittsburgh A staple in the Pittsburgh Hardcore scene for over 10 years playing late 80's crossover

End Your Life
The Pittsburgh Hardcore beatdown enthusiasts along the lines of Shattered Realm or Punishment

No Retreat
The Pittsburgh Hardcore legends ... if you don't know, then you don't need to know

Suffer The Fate
Hard hitting, southern rock influenced hardcore with a decent amount of metal parts along the lines of A Perfect Murder or Santa Sangre




More Bands From Around The Area


The Abattoir Murders - Pittsburgh Shred Your Ass Off Grind-Pop
www.theabattoirmurders.com

By Any Means Necessary - The Altoona, PA mainstays, these guys have been here for a while
www.angelfire.com/pa4/anymeans

Commit Suicide - These guys recently broke up, but before that, they were by far the best grindcore band ever
www.commitsuicide.net

Demise Of Eros - Pittsburgh area metalcore along the lines of It Dies Today and the likes
www.forevermeansgoodbye.com

Gaschamber - Insanely tight 80's thrash metal that could quite possibly put Slayer to shame any day
www.geocities.com/gassedbythrash

It Ends Today - Crazy fucking punk rock kids coming from the Natrona Heights area
www.purevolume.com/itendstoday

Once Nothing - "A metal band with a rock n roll problem"
www.oncenothing.com

Sinning Is Our Savior - Extremely technical speed metal / death metal hybrid from the area
www.sinningisoursavior.net

Terra Firma - Melodic Christian Hardcore with passionate lyrics along the lines of Strongarm from Butler, PA
www.terrafirmamusic.net

There Were Many... - Intense and technical grindcore with some of the hardest breaks you'll hear
www.geocities.com/thereweremany