Santa Cruz, California thrash metal project that performs in full orc costumes, bringing Tolkien's villains to life on stage. One of the most entertainingly committed concept bands in American metal.

Saint Paul, Minnesota speed/thrash metal project. The rallying-cry name promises urgency and militancy from the Twin Cities.

Mobile, Alabama thrash metal project. Gulf Coast aggression trapped and raging against confinement.

Clovis, New Mexico melodic death/thrash project. The name's simultaneous evocation of autumn and collapse channels the high plains wind into heavy music.

Buffalo, New York hardcore punk and thrash hybrid. The comparative name promises something beyond ordinary darkness from Western New York's hardscrabble scene.

A Hanging is a hardcore punk and thrash metal band from New Orleans, Louisiana, active since 2015 with five releases. The band plays short, violent bursts of crossover aggression rooted in both punk fury and thrash precision. Named after the George Orwell essay, their music carries a grim, politically charged undercurrent fitting for a band born in post-Katrina New Orleans.

New York City metalcore and thrash project named after the Exodus classic. Manhattan aggression paying tribute to Bay Area thrash royalty.

Boston thrash metal project. The religious imagery of ongoing sacrifice channels spiritual intensity through speed and aggression.

A Sleeping Hydra is an experimental thrash metal band from California. Their sound merges thrash aggression with avant-garde experimentation, documented across their 2023 EP "Carry A Light" and 2024 full-length "Global Evil."

Monmouth County, New Jersey thrash metal project. Jersey Shore thrash delivered in abbreviated form.

Aatxe is a black/thrash and crust punk band from Huntsville, Alabama. Across two full-lengths — 2018's "Cardinal" and 2020's "Piros" — the band delivers a filthy collision of black metal tremolo, thrash velocity, and d-beat fury.

Abandoned Souls is a thrash metal band from Saint Paul, Minnesota. The band plays aggressive, riff-driven thrash metal rooted in the Twin Cities underground.

Aberrated is a progressive thrash and death metal band from Long Island, New York. Though their released output consists of two singles, the band's technical approach to thrash and death metal marks them as part of Long Island's vibrant extreme metal scene.

Abnormality is a technical and brutal death metal band from Marlborough, Massachusetts. Fronted by vocalist Mallika Sundaramurthy, the band released two acclaimed full-lengths — 2016's "Mechanisms of Omniscience" and 2019's "Sociopathic Constructs" — cementing their place among the most punishing acts in the New England death metal scene.

Long-running Texas extreme metal from Amarillo founded by Ramon Cazares. Blends death metal with black metal, thrash, groove, and grind.