Ripping Speed / Thrash Metal from Lubbock.

A thrash metal act out of the Quad Cities area, formed in 2024, Toxic Messiah arrive with the high-energy riff attack and confrontational attitude that define the genre's new wave, adding another entry to the Midwest's growing thrash revival.

Sheboygan, Wisconsin's Toxic Ruin, formed in 2016, play thrash metal rooted in the genre's core principles — punishing riffs, furious tempos, and a blue-collar Midwest work ethic that keeps their sound raw and unpretentious.

West Mystic, Connecticut's Toxic Shock, active since 2011, bring a straightforward and energetic thrash metal approach to New England, favoring classic song structures and aggressive delivery over modern reinvention.

Tacoma's Toxic Shock, formed in 2011, deliver thrash metal with the gritty regional character of the Pacific Northwest underground, playing the genre straight and fast without deviation from its core tenets.

An Orlando-based thrash metal act operating since 2011, this Toxic Shock bring the genre's central pillars — heavy palm-muted riffing, relentless rhythm, and aggressive vocals — to Florida's underground metal scene.

Spokane's Toxic Vengeance, formed in 2022, fuse thrash metal's riff-first ferocity with death metal's heavier tonal palette, arriving at an Eastern Washington sound that draws from both genres without settling fully into either.

Out of the small coastal enclave of Baywood-Los Osos, California, Toxic Wizard collapse genre walls with reckless abandon, fusing sludge heaviness, grindcore violence, power metal theatrics, and experimental noise into a deliberately unclassifiable whole since 2016.

Ogden, Utah thrash act ToxicDose arrived in 2019 with a blunt, heads-down approach to the genre, plugging into the no-nonsense tradition of speed and aggression that defines underground American thrash.