Brooklyn-based Misha Kushnir is a solo project combining the melodic grandeur of power metal with the compositional ambition of progressive metal, offering technically accomplished material shaped by the cosmopolitan influences of New York City's diverse metal community since 2018.

Miami's Moirae take their name from the Greek fates and bring a corresponding sense of inevitability to their progressive/post-metal sound, building intricate song structures that unfold with patience and purpose. Since 2010, they've been one of South Florida's more thoughtful offerings in the heavier post-rock adjacent space.

Out of the Lehigh Valley in New Jersey, Monoceros have been playing progressive heavy metal and hard rock since 2004, bringing a melodic, technically ambitious approach to song craft over two decades of activity.

Grinding Progressive Sludge Metal from Denton.

From the small city of Hutchinson, Minnesota, Monogon blend classic heavy metal sensibility with the cold, atmospheric edge of black metal, forging a distinctive sound in an unlikely corner of the Midwest since 2018.

Chicago's Monolith have been at the intersection of progressive and thrash metal since 1993, one of the longer-tenured acts in the city's underground, built on technical riffing and ambitious song structures.

Hailing from Lake County, Indiana, this progressive metal act has been active since 1993, pursuing complex arrangements and shifting time signatures with the patience and density the name implies.

Based in Farmingdale, New York, Monolith Zero formed in 2020 and pursue progressive metal with an emphasis on layered composition and dynamic shifts, channeling Long Island's quiet suburbs into expansive instrumental architecture.

Orlando's Monotheist have been blending progressive and death metal since 2012, channeling Florida's extreme metal pedigree through a technical, compositionally ambitious lens that rewards close listening.