Vicious Groove / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.

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Barrington, Illinois's Hostile have been delivering groove-laced heavy metal since 2010, fusing the punch of groove metal with the directness of traditional heavy metal. Suburban Midwest aggression with a low center of gravity.

Out of Colorado Springs since 2014, Hostile Encounter bring a high-altitude intensity to old-school thrash metal, with riffs that hit like altitude sickness — fast, disorienting, and unforgiving.

Gainesville, Florida's Hot Graves are a swamp-rotten convergence of death metal, black metal, thrash, and crust punk, active since 2011 and sounding like something that crawled up from Florida soil. Ferocious, irreverent, and distinctly Southern in its ugliness.

Santa Cruz, California's Hunger have been serving up groove-driven thrash with a coastal menace since 2020, built on mid-paced pocket grooves and riff momentum that pulls like an undertow. Thrash by way of the Pacific.

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San Francisco's thrash veterans have been sharpening their Bay Area blade since 2017, trading in speed, precision, and that classic Northern California aggression that put the genre on the map.

Marietta, Georgia's power/thrash hybrid flies dangerously close to the sun on wings of twin-guitar harmony and galloping rhythms, blending classic metal ambition with the sharpened-blade intensity of thrash.

New York progressive metal act whose layered song structures and shifting time signatures reward patient listeners, building elaborate compositions that carry the density of glacial formations in slow, inevitable motion.

Massachusetts thrash veterans running since 1997, Iconoclasm are among the longer-tenured acts in the New England extreme underground — their longevity a testament to a sound that has never needed softening.

Wisconsin thrash/death metallers from Silver Lake who have been tearing through the rural Midwest since 2016, fusing the neck-snapping momentum of thrash with the malevolent texture of death metal.

Brooklyn's Ikillya has spent over a decade sharpening a sound that pits thrash aggression against metalcore intensity and groove metal swagger, forging something street-hardened and distinctly New York.

Hailing from Yucaipa in the Inland Empire of Southern California, Ill Will deals in straight-ahead thrash metal with a no-frills attitude — fast riffs, hostile energy, and zero patience for polish.

San Carlos veterans Imagika have been fusing power metal's soaring melodics with thrash metal's technical aggression since 2007, representing the best of what the Bay Area's scene has always done well.