Daytona Beach thrash band from Florida's racing capital, delivering speed metal at full throttle with the same reckless intensity as the Daytona 500.

Painesville, Ohio thrash metal act whose 2017 EP Wrath of Militaristic Barbarism delivers exactly the kind of war-obsessed thrash fury the title demands from the Lake Erie shore.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania doom band merging cosmic horror with crushing heaviness from the heart of Amish Country, an inspired juxtaposition of pastoral setting and Lovecraftian dread.

Melodic progressive metal from Houston with art-rock grandeur.

Ridgeland, South Carolina thrash band delivering paradoxically named destruction from the Lowcountry, channeling nuclear-age anxiety into aggressive speed metal.

Orlando, Florida NWOTHM project with seven releases since 2024. American Nightmare and multiple demos demonstrate a band producing material at breakneck speed, blending traditional metal with hardcore energy from the theme park capital.

Fort Collins, Colorado stoner metal project whose 2021 demo The Heavy Ones captures rough-hewn, radiation-tinged fuzz from the foothills of the Rockies.

Portland, Oregon thrash metal project. Nuclear transgression from the Pacific Northwest's boundless metal underground.

Atomic Spell is a black/thrash metal band from Santa Marta, Magdalena, Colombia, formed in 2022. The band released a demo, "The Persistent Onslaught of the Witch," in 2023 followed by the EP "Nuclear Speed Ritual" in 2024, playing under the Unsigned/independent banner with themes of death, blasphemy, and rock 'n' roll. The band suffered a loss when guitarist Ricardo Goenaga Ferro passed away in 2025.