Formed in Granada Hills in 2021, Ruthven play thrash-inflected death metal with a sharp, riff-forward attack that draws from both genres without softening either's edges.

Nashua, New Hampshire's Ryan Burke operates as a solo project fusing thrash metal's precision and speed with groove metal's locked-in, syncopated heaviness, a combination honed since the project's 2022 start.

Rêx Mündi is an American black metal project operating since 2011, drawing on the rawness and esoteric atmosphere that define the genre's underground tradition, with an identity rooted more in concept than geography.

Hailing from Marrero, Louisiana, S.I.K. have been grinding out no-frills thrash metal since 1987, outlasting trends and scene shifts with the stubborn persistence of a band that simply refuses to quit. Their sound carries the swampy grit of the Gulf South — tight riffing, caustic vocals, and a rhythm section that hits like a sledgehammer on concrete.

Filthy Sludge Metal out of Texas.

Lynnwood, Washington's Sabre have been sharpening their thrash attack since 2010, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's long tradition of heavy music built for damp, grey skies and relentless energy. They trade in razor riffs and velocity-first songwriting that keeps classic thrash values intact without retreating into nostalgia.

Sacred Reich is a thrash metal band formed in Phoenix, Arizona in 1985 by vocalist and bassist Phil Rind alongside guitarists Wiley Arnett and Jason Rainey. The band established itself as a politically outspoken force in late-1980s thrash with albums such as Ignorance (1987) and the landmark The American Way (1990), the latter credited as one of the earliest groove metal records. After disbanding in 2000 and reuniting in 2006, the band returned to Metal Blade Records and released Awakening in 2019, their first studio album in over two decades.

Boston's Sacrum have spent their career since 2008 fusing death and thrash metal into something that carries the intellectual weight of New England's metal scene alongside uncompromising brutality. Their sound is precise without being sterile — angular, riff-forward death/thrash that owes as much to the Bay Area as it does to Europe's extremity.

Raw blackened speed metal channeling Motorhead and Judas Priest through an extreme metal lens. 'Midnight Assassin' is a nine-track ode to serial killers.