Long Island, New York's Show No Mercy play Bay Area-influenced thrash metal with a regional East Coast edge, formed in 2011 and committed to the speed, aggression, and riff-forward attack that defined the genre's golden era.

Baltimore, Maryland's Show No Mercy fuse crossover and thrash metal into a ferocious, punk-inflected assault formed in 2011 — the band channels the genre's most confrontational traditions, built for the pit and powered by intensity above all.

San Francisco's Shrakys, formed in 2021, bring a Bay Area pedigree to a hybrid of heavy and thrash metal — sharp riffing, speed, and a no-nonsense approach that draws on the city's long history of thrash aggression.

Los Angeles's Shrapnel, formed in 2021, deliver heavy and thrash metal shaped by the city's sprawling extreme metal community, prioritizing riff density and forward momentum in a style that echoes the early-80s heavy thrash underground.

Austin-based Shrapnel play melodic thrash and heavy metal with a classic sensibility — the band emphasizes tight melodic construction and speed, drawing from the genre's golden era while operating out of one of Texas's most active heavy music cities.

Shriek! for Death fuse death metal's guttural brutality with thrash's riff-driven velocity, the US-based act formed in 2016 building on the classic crossover between these genres that has generated some of extreme metal's most ferocious material.

Crewe, Virginia thrash/death metal band formed in 2018, working in the aggressive crossover territory where old-school thrash velocity meets death metal's heavier harmonic darkness. A rural Virginia act bringing sharp-edged extremity to a state with a scattered but resilient underground.

Chicago crossover thrash/hardcore band formed in 2022, fusing the breakneck tempos of thrash with hardcore's confrontational directness — their Spanish name, meaning "God willing," suggesting a pointed cultural identity within a genre historically dominated by Anglo voices.

Nashville thrash/death/groove/Southern metal band formed in 2020, bearing the Virginia state motto — a phrase synonymous with defiant violence — as their banner while blending the riff-forward aggression of groove metal with the humidity and grit of Southern metal.