Whittier/Pico Rivera, California thrash metal act with four releases since 2015. Their full-length Mercurion and subsequent singles deliver tight, precise thrash from the southeast LA suburbs, keeping the region's legacy of speed metal alive.

Sioux Falls, South Dakota speed/thrash metal act sharing a name with the legendary Dutch death-doom band, delivering aggressive velocity from the Northern Plains.

Virginia Beach speed/thrash metal project. A blunt, two-word mission statement from Hampton Roads' metal underground.

Pittsgrove/Elmer, New Jersey progressive metal project with ten releases since 2023. Behind Jupiter Clouds and subsequent EPs build a rapidly expanding catalog of ambitious prog from the Garden State's rural Salem County.

Alameda, California black metal and speed metal project whose releases channel the Bay Area's fog-shrouded atmosphere through raw extremity since 2012. The German-inflected name adds a martial edge.

Colfax, California speed/thrash metal act from the Sierra Nevada foothills, channeling Gold Country's rugged frontier spirit into relentless, old-school aggression.

Speed/thrash metal act that migrated from San Jose to Las Vegas. Two releases since 2012 including On Slaying Grounds deliver relentless, classic-influenced thrash that fits naturally in both the Bay Area and desert metal traditions.

Houston speed metal band formed in 2016, operating under the name Bad Heaven Ltd. and channeling classic speed metal intensity into modern output.

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.