Detroit's Entice arrived in 2024 carrying the motor city's legacy of heavy music into a heavy/thrash metal template — hard-hitting riffs and road-tested toughness baked into a city with no shortage of metalheads to answer to.

Portland's Enticer has been flying the flag for traditional heavy metal since 2014 in a city better known for its extreme acts, keeping the NWOBHM spirit alive with soaring riffs and a reverence for the genre's classic foundations.

New Haven's Entierro began as a stoner/doom outfit before steering toward heavier traditional metal, a trajectory that reflects a band constantly testing what it means to be heavy — slow and hazy one era, riff-forward and purposeful the next. Active since 2014.

Hailing from the Sierra Nevada foothills of Pine Grove, California, Entropathy bring a classic heavy metal ethos to an area better known for pine trees than power chords, formed in 2019.

Kansas City hard rock and heavy metal outfit Entropy deliver blue-collar riffs with heartland grit, drawing on classic influences while forging their own identity since 2020.

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Long Island's Epitome started as a thrash act and expanded into heavier, more groove-oriented territory over time, tracing a trajectory familiar to New York's durable metal underground. Active since 2006, they've developed a sound that honors both phases of their evolution.

Heavy Ritual Dark Ambient from Plano.

Heavy Dark Ambient (early); Techno / EBM (later) from Dallas (early)/San Antonio (later).