Washington State's Torrent operates at the technically ambitious crossroads of thrash, speed, and progressive metal, built for listeners who want complexity alongside velocity, active since 2014.

Buffalo, New York's Torture Agenda smashes together grindcore ferocity, speed metal momentum, and crust punk's D-beat-rooted rawness into a chaotic, high-velocity assault formed in 2021.

Sacramento, California's Torture DC traces a trajectory from thrash and speed metal roots into heavier death metal territory, with a sound that has evolved and darkened over time since their formation in 2022.

Hatfield, Massachusetts speed merchants Tortured Skull fuse the raw velocity of speed metal with punk attitude, carrying the torch of no-frills, pedal-to-the-floor aggression from western New England since 2016.

New Orleans speed metal and crossover outfit Total Hell bring the Crescent City's outsider aggression to a sound built on raw velocity and punk-metal collision, arriving in 2019 as a product of the city's perpetually fertile underground.

Baltimore's Total Maniac bring a punk-edged ferocity to heavy and speed metal, channeling the working-class belligerence of Maryland's underground music scene into riff-driven, no-bullshit metal that worships at the altar of early metal excess.

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Totentanz play technical power/speed metal with a precision-focused approach, drawing on the intricate guitar work and propulsive tempos of the genre's most demanding practitioners since their 2018 formation.

Portland, Oregon's Toxic Holocaust are one of the definitive names in the blackened speed and thrash metal revival, led by Joel Grind since 2002, forging a rawly produced and ferociously energetic sound that draws equally from early Sodom, Bathory, and Motörhead.

Ripping Speed / Thrash Metal from Lubbock.

Fredericksburg, Virginia's Transgression take a sharper, faster approach — thrash and speed metal delivered with raw edge and plenty of headbanging momentum, carrying the torch of classic American thrash in the mid-Atlantic.

San Francisco's Trauma draw from the city's storied metal heritage, reviving the power and speed metal traditions of the Bay Area with anthemic riffs and a high-octane approach that recalls the scene's 1980s heyday.

Santa Rosa, California speed and thrash metal band that has been at it since 2016, leaning into the tighter, faster end of the thrash spectrum with a nod to first-wave speed metal ferocity. A decade-long presence in the Bay Area's underground metal circuit.

Oakland speed metal act Trencher have been forging their craft since 2004, drawing from the Bay Area's long tradition of fast, riff-forward metal with a lean and no-frills delivery. Their longevity in an unforgiving scene speaks to a dedication to the pure mechanics of the style.

Tundra is a death metal and deathcore act from Topeka, Kansas, formed in 1997, blending the crushing heaviness of deathcore breakdowns with the more technical sensibilities of death metal.

Twisted Escape is a Denver, Colorado heavy/speed/thrash metal band formed in 2021, drawing on classic thrash and speed metal influences to deliver fast, aggressive riff-work rooted in the 1980s extreme metal tradition.