Overland Park, Kansas outfit Klehma has been threading death, thrash, and progressive metal together since 2012. A technically ambitious band from the heart of the American Midwest, they favor complexity and dynamic range over straight-line aggression.

Tarrytown, New York progressive metal band Klepsydra formed in 2016 with an ear for labyrinthine song structures and expansive dynamics. Sitting in the shadow of New York City, their work reflects the ambitious, searching quality of the region's prog-minded metal underground.

Lexington, Kentucky's Klexos has pursued progressive death metal since 2017, merging technical intensity with a compositional depth that sets them apart in the Bluegrass State underground. Their music rewards patient listeners willing to follow its twisting corridors to the end.

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Madison, Wisconsin's Last Crack blend progressive complexity with the gut-punch immediacy of groove metal, making music that's simultaneously brainy and bruising. Their Wisconsin roots give their sound a no-nonsense directness that keeps the prog tendencies grounded.

Pittsburgh's Last Will stretch thrash metal across a progressive skeleton, threading speed and technical ambition into songs that reward repeat listens as much as they reward headbanging.

Named for one of the world's most venomous scorpions, Melbourne, Florida's Leiurus inject progressive ambition into their blackened death metal, taking the genre into longer, more compositionally complex territory since forming in 2022. The venom is just as potent for being patient.

Worcester, Massachusetts's Leon Trout approach progressive metal with a songwriter's instinct, crafting elaborate instrumental and vocal narratives since 2016 that prioritize arc and mood over mere technicality. New England introspection with considerable weight behind it.

Named for the Slavic forest spirit, Phoenix's Leshen blend technical progressive structures with thrash's kinetic drive — music that stalks through the desert heat with ancient menace.