Overcome by FISTFIGHT HXC, Reconsidered: Regina Hardcore with a Thrash Pulse

A Five-Piece From Saskatchewan Pushes Hardcore Toward Thrash and Groove on Its April 2025 Single

Overcome runs on fast riffs, a heavy groove and a vocal that never lets up, the kind of thrash-leaning hardcore built to start a pit. FISTFIGHT HXC, a five-piece from Regina, Saskatchewan, released Overcome on 25 April 2025. Eighteen months on, the single still shows exactly where the band is heading.

FISTFIGHT HXC’s Overcome sits in the metalcore playlist below, and the band’s coverage is collected on the FISTFIGHT HXC profile. The single came to this desk through PopHits.Co Music Charts, which verifies independent artists and places their releases across its network of music news titles. Press play and turn it up, then keep reading for where the band fits.

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Hardcore Has Borrowed Thrash Riffs for Four Decades, and Overcome by FISTFIGHT HXC Joins That Line

The wave behind Overcome is older than the band. Hardcore punk and thrash metal started trading riffs in the 1980s. The crossover bands sped up punk and roughened up metal at the same time. As a result, the two scenes shared venues, tempos and a lot of the same audience.

In the 1990s, the exchange ran the other way. Sepultura came out of Brazil as a thrash band. Then, with Chaos A.D. in 1993, they slowed parts of their sound into heavy grooves while keeping the aggression. That record taught a generation of heavy bands that a groove riff can hit harder than a fast one.

Modern hardcore carries both lessons. Many of the heaviest current bands play fast and then drop into a groove, and they borrow thrash picking for the moments that need speed. The result works in two places at once: in the pit, and on a metal fan’s playlist.

That is the tradition Overcome sits in. It is hardcore first, but the riffs are played like thrash and the groove sections are built for impact.

Where FISTFIGHT HXC Fits, a Regina Five-Piece Built on Hardcore Roots, Thrash Speed and Groove

FISTFIGHT HXC formed in Regina, and the band calls itself a Canadian hardcore band. The lineup is David Ojeda and Abimael Crooc on guitar, Alan Guevara Garcia on drums, Donald Pinay on bass and Patrick Cross on vocals. Three members have immigrant backgrounds, according to the band’s own website. Two are of Filipino descent and one of Mexican descent. One comes from the First Nations community, and one is of European descent.

That mix matters to the music. The band writes about self-discovery, resilience and overcoming adversity, and it treats hardcore as a way to turn personal struggle into something shared. In September 2025, Unite Asia covered Overcome as the work of a Filipino-Canadian hardcore band carrying the torch for its roots and for the wider underground community.

Overcome on Record, From Fast Riffs to a Heavy Groove

The same piece described the single precisely: fast riffs, heavy groove and a relentless vocal delivery, with more of the band’s thrash influence on show than before. It also named Sepultura as a clear inspiration, while noting that the band stays grounded in hardcore. Lyrically, Overcome is about confronting obstacles head-on and pushing through fear, doubt and resistance.

Meanwhile, the catalogue around it is growing. Blazemuse Magazine has recognised the band, and in February 2025 a feature by writer Landon Buford covered the single Honor, a song about friendship, loyalty and standing firm. The band has since released its debut EP, Respect, five tracks of stripped-down hardcore. Overcome runs for three minutes and 34 seconds, tight by metal standards and about right for a hardcore set.

Adjacent Acts From the Canadian Prairies to Brazilian Groove Metal Around Overcome

Two adjacent acts frame the record.

Comeback Kid is the local reference point. The band came out of Winnipeg, one province east of Regina, and proved that a hardcore band from the Canadian prairies could build an audience far beyond them. FISTFIGHT HXC is working from the same map, with the same reliance on speed and directness.

Sepultura is the heavier one. The Brazilian band’s groove-era records showed how weight and aggression could share a song, and Overcome uses that idea inside a hardcore frame. In short, listeners who want their hardcore with thrash muscle will find both influences in one track.

The live side matters too. FISTFIGHT HXC has played Regina rooms such as The Exchange, where the band shared a bill with Fall of Earth and Mycelia in October 2023. More recently, the band’s YouTube channel has carried live clips from a show on 27 December 2025, including Honour and NLB (Never Looking Back).

RockRevival.News’s curator team: “Overcome earns its place on the balance between speed and weight. The fast riffs push it forward, the heavy groove holds it down, and the vocal never gives either one room to rest.”

Stream Overcome on Apple Music, and follow FISTFIGHT HXC across platforms: Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok. The band’s official website carries the full story.

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