Stainless is a Portland, Oregon heavy metal and speed metal band formed in 2008, delivering hard-charging, NWOBHM-influenced metal with a hard rock sensibility and a love of speed and melody.

Los Angeles heavy metal band formed in 2016, rooted in the classic American heavy metal tradition with a no-frills approach to riff-driven songwriting and muscular song structures.

Stormtrooper is a heavy/power metal band from Los Angeles, California, formed in 2022, playing melodic, hard-driving metal with power metal ambitions and classic heavy metal foundations.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania thrash metal band formed in 2016, drawing on both Bay Area and East Coast thrash traditions to deliver ferocious, riff-driven material with the city's characteristic grit.

Sunlord is a New York-based heavy/speed metal act formed in 2013, channeling the raw energy of classic 1980s metal with a hard-driving, no-frills approach rooted in traditional heavy metal riffing and high-octane tempos.

Syranax is a thrash/speed metal band from Austin, Texas, formed in 2022, bringing high-velocity riffing and old-school aggression to the Texas metal scene.

Coming out of the Norwalk/Whittier corridor in Los Angeles County, TerrorStorm have been running their black/thrash/speed metal assault since 2015, part of a thriving Southern California scene that has never stopped producing bands with this much raw velocity. They play with the reckless momentum of old Sodom and Bathory translated through the LA underground's obsession with analog aggression and total sonic attack.

Morristown, New Jersey's The Black Calculus have been sharpening a thrash/speed metal attack since 2020, bringing the precision and velocity of the genre's classic era to a Northeast scene that doesn't always get its due in the national conversation. Their music treats aggression as a technical problem to be solved with maximum efficiency.

Hailing from the Quad-Cities area of Illinois, The Horde have been running a tight speed/thrash operation since 2013 that owes clear debts to the high-velocity precision of early Overkill and Whiplash. Their brand of thrash is built for momentum — fast, lean, and locked in, with the kind of riff economy that keeps things from ever bogging down. They're among the more earnest practitioners of old-school thrash in the upper Midwest.