Washington state's Fallen Martyr have spent over a decade developing a progressive death/thrash sound that prizes structural complexity alongside aggression, formed in 2010. Their music moves through unexpected shifts in tempo and texture, refusing to settle into the predictable patterns of either genre.

Santa Rosa, California's Fallen Prey are fresh to the scene, forming in 2025 with a straightforward thrash agenda in a Northern California county with deep roots in aggressive music. They're early in their run, but the Sonoma County metal tradition gives them plenty of precedent to draw from.

Albuquerque's Fallen Prophets deliver death/thrash from the high desert Southwest, a scene that has long sustained underground metal despite its geographic distance from major coastal hubs. Formed in 2016, their sound mines the aggression of both genres to forge something heavy enough to match New Mexico's arid, unforgiving terrain.

Harbor Beach, Michigan's Fallen Seraph bring death/thrash ferocity from one of the state's most remote reaches, formed in 2024. Playing extreme metal in a small Lake Huron shoreline community takes a certain commitment — their sound carries the isolated, driven energy that kind of geography tends to produce.

Livermore, California's Falling to Pieces have been blending thrash aggression with groove metal's rhythmic muscle since 2007, part of the Bay Area's remarkably durable tradition of heavy guitar-driven bands. Nearly two decades in, they continue refining a formula that keeps the energy high and the riffs heavy.

Chico, California's Fallon bring death/thrash hostility from a small Northern California college town that has quietly produced more serious heavy music than its size might suggest, formed in 2023. Raw, fast, and riff-forward, their approach has the hungry urgency of a young band with something to prove.

Brooklyn's Fallout have been delivering hard-nosed heavy metal and hard rock since 2018, rooted in the borough's long tradition of working-class rock and roll. Their sound is unshowy and direct — the kind of heavy metal that has more in common with a bar stage than an arena, and is better for it.

New York's Fallout blends the ferocity of death metal with the kinetic energy of thrash, formed in 2018. The combination makes for a sound that's both technically aggressive and viscerally propulsive.

Coming out of the Bay Area in 2018, Fallout carries on the thrash tradition that the region made legendary. Their sound is shaped by the same streets and stages that forged the genre's golden era.