Profits of Doom out of Sebastopol, California grind groove and thrash metal together into a sound that's equal parts neck-snapping rhythm and full-throttle intensity. Founded in 2018, the band leans hard into the mid-paced, syncopated heaviness that defines modern groove metal while injecting enough thrash velocity to keep things volatile. Their northern California origins lend them a certain independent, no-frills spirit that comes through in their muscular, no-nonsense material.

Thunderous Heavy / Groove Metal / Hard Rock out of Texas.

Port Angeles, Washington's Prolapser throw thrash metal, grindcore, and powerviolence into a blender and hit the highest setting, producing something chaotic, loud, and deliberately excessive. Formed in 2019, the band embraces the collision of tempos and intensities that comes from inhabiting multiple aggressive subgenres at once, moving from blastbeat ferocity to thrash stomp without warning. They're a characteristically irreverent and unruly presence from the Pacific Northwest's rugged underground.

Out of Oswego, New York — a small city on Lake Ontario far removed from any major metal hub — Prometheon have been forging death/thrash metal since 2014. Their sound sits at the crossroads where surgical thrash riffing collides with the downtuned brutality of death metal, the kind of regional underground band that thrives on grit over polish.

A very recent entry from Franklin, Kentucky, Propaganda Machine formed in 2024 and hit the ground running with a groove/thrash attack that owes as much to mid-period Pantera as it does to the riff-first mentality of classic Bay Area thrash. The band's name signals the confrontational, politically charged energy that tends to run beneath the surface of their style.

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Blistering Black / Thrash Metal from Dallas.

Black/thrash metal from Dallas. Continuation of Absu legacy.

A raw speed and thrash metal outfit out of Gainesville, Florida, Prostitute emerged in 2024 with the aggressive, no-frills energy of early Bay Area thrash and classic NWOBHM-influenced speed. Even as a new act, the band wastes no time announcing a commitment to velocity and abrasion over polish.