Los Angeles thrash metal project whose dollar-sign-adorned name takes aim at capitalism from the heart of America's entertainment industry. LA thrash with an anti-consumerist edge.

$lutrot is a slam and brutal death metal project with members spread across Nevada, North Carolina, and Texas. The band emerged in 2018 with a split alongside Nephrectomy before dropping their debut full-length "$LAUGHTERED $LUT $TORIES" the following year, delivering a short but savage burst of guttural slam brutality.

'Big Jim' Shively is a one-man doom and psychedelic rock project from Nashville, Tennessee. Active since the early 1990s under the CRANK moniker, the project has amassed a sprawling catalog of recordings spanning cassette-era demos to full-lengths, blending heavy doom riffs with lysergic psychedelic wandering across more than two decades of output.

'Iisnááhí is a Diné (Navajo) black metal project from Albuquerque, New Mexico, blending raw black metal with Indigenous language, themes, and cultural identity. Founded in 2018, the project has been prolific, releasing four full-lengths and multiple EPs including 'Wolves of a Dead Generation' and 'Reservation Kills,' with lyrics delivered in both Diné Bizaad and English. The music confronts colonialism, cultural erasure, and life on the reservation through the lens of furious, atmospheric black metal.

(god-rot) is a progressive death metal and grindcore outfit from Rochester, New York. The band made their mark with their 2022 self-titled full-length, an eight-track album that fuses the technical ambition of progressive death metal with the frenzied velocity of grindcore.

(Ohlm) is a progressive doom metal band from Louisville, Kentucky. Since their 2013 debut EP "The Synaptic Dissent," the band has built a catalog of five releases that push doom metal into expansive, cerebral territory, culminating in their 2024 EP "the Division."

Ashburn/Sterling, Virginia crossover thrash and metalcore project whose parenthetical name signals deliberate anonymity. Northern Virginia aggression that refuses to identify its source.

(waning) is a doom and post-metal band from Sacramento, California, active since 2007 with a catalog spanning eight releases. From the sparse beginnings of their 2007 self-titled EP through the expansive atmospherics of 2017's full-length "Still Hours," the band has steadily refined a sound rooted in glacial heaviness and brooding emotional weight. Their work occupies the space where crushing doom riffs dissolve into shimmering post-metal passages.

...and Here I Lie is a death/doom project from Holley, New York, active from 1996 to 2000 across four releases including the full-length "Regrets." The project combined the crushing weight of funeral pace doom with guttural death metal vocals and bleak, introspective themes. Tracks like "pastures of wandered sounds" and "days of isolation" reflect a deeply melancholic strain of late-90s death/doom.