Austin space rock/doom band blending stoner doom, psychedelia, and vintage analog synths. Featuring Rob McCarthy on guitar/vocals/synths, they released The Band from Beyond on Bandcamp in 2018 after years of demos and EPs.

Ripping Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Ripping speed metal out of Houston. Dangerously catchy riffs with a raw, evil edge.

Furious Hardcore (early); Thrash Metal / Metalcore (later) from Laredo.

Out of San Juan Capistrano, California, Gadnium brings together the twin-guitar attack of traditional heavy metal, the soaring hooks of power metal, and the speed of thrash — a triple-threat act that formed in 2022.

A thrash metal band from the small town of Rural Valley, Pennsylvania, Gainstand have been delivering straight-ahead speed and aggression since 2016, proving that small towns can produce genuinely ferocious metal.

There's a fitting darkness to a black metal band forming in Salem, Massachusetts — and Gallows, active since 2021, leans into that cursed history with cold, uncompromising riffs and bleak atmosphere. Their music feels native to the witch-trial soil it grew from.

Warwick, Rhode Island's Galvanized fuse thrash metal aggression with metalcore's kinetic energy, channeling the tight-wound intensity of the New England scene into a punishing hybrid. Since 2017 they've been one of the harder-hitting acts in the Ocean State underground.

Eugene, Oregon's Game Over have been playing speed-laced thrash with old-school conviction since 2014, worshipping at the altar of fast picking and punishing rhythms. They keep the Pacific Northwest's thrash tradition burning without nostalgia getting in the way.