New AZ Hardcore Metal Website Under Development After 20 Year Dormancy

Yes, we are attempting a comeback for 2026. We have plans to be a part of today’s local music scene to assist fans, musicians, and others involved with local music.

What is AZ Hardcore Metal?

AZ Hardcore Metal was a website originally created in 2003 with a greater focus on heavier genres of music in Arizona. The site featured band profiles, live performance information, musician interviews, music business knowledge sharing and more. All existing as a free service to promote the local music community.

Throughout the run of the original website we successfully promoted several local shows in the Phoenix metro area. You could find us promoting live music across our site and MySpace page until the last AZ Hardcore Metal show in 2008.

Our plan is to pickup where we left off in the 2000's with a new modern site and continue to grow our service into a more useful tool for fans, musicians and others in the music scene. There are some great ideas that we have been developing over the years that we are eager to share with the community.

Why are you coming back after such a long layoff?

After doing some research while looking to get back into the music scene recently, we kept having thoughts about the old site and the reasons why we created it 20 years ago. Those reasons are still just as relevant today as they were back then, and we have continued to contribute ideas to this project since. Overall, it felt like something was telling us to give it another shot.

So what is next for AZ Hardcore Metal?

While we are excited to share what is to come, we are still in the early stages of development.

We will share more details in 2026, so please check back here for more updates in the coming months.