One of the pioneering Christian heavy metal bands in the United States, Barnabas formed in 1977 and helped lay early groundwork for faith-based hard rock and metal before splitting up.

Fargo, North Dakota's Barnaby Jones deal in a blend of stoner, doom, and heavy metal, carrying on the mid-tempo, riff-heavy tradition of the genre from the Northern Plains underground since 2016.

Kansas City, Missouri's Barrage operate at the intersection of heavy metal, groove metal, and metalcore, blending hard-hitting riffwork with the modern heaviness that defines the Midwest's contemporary metal underground.

Denton, Texas heavy metal and punk outfit Barricade formed in 2021, blending the raw energy of punk with traditional metal riffing.

A neoclassical heavy metal project out of Algoma, Wisconsin, Barry Kuzay has been crafting largely instrumental compositions since 2009, drawing on classical structures within a metal framework.

A one-man blackened heavy metal project from Sidney, Ohio, Bartzabel has been active since 2020, exploring occult and fantastical themes alongside personal reflections on love and free thought.

New Jersey act Bastard Skull plays a hard-charging blend of heavy and thrash metal out of Bayonne, active since 2022 in the tradition of classic crossover-era riffing.

BAT is a heavy metal and speed metal trio from Richmond, Virginia, formed in 2013 by Municipal Waste guitarists Ryan Waste and Nick Poulos, who channeled their love of the dirtier and more primitive side of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal into a stripped-back analog format. The band recorded their initial material to analog reel-to-reel tape, and with drummer Chris Marshall joining in 2017, solidified a road-tested lineup. BAT are currently signed to Nuclear Blast Records.

Bedemon was an American doom metal project active in recordings from 1973, formed by Pentagram guitarist Randy Palmer alongside bandmates Bobby Liebling and Geof O'Keefe. Never a performing band, the project existed solely in home recordings that captured an early and raw form of what would become doom metal, all recorded on home equipment and never intended for public release. The recordings were finally collected and issued as Child of Darkness: From the Original Master Tapes in 2004; a second album, Symphony of Shadows, was completed posthumously after Palmer's death in August 2002.