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Saint Paul's Bare Knuckle Brawl brings a street-level ferocity to thrash metal and crossover, a Twin Cities act drawing on the genre's punk-adjacent roots since forming in 2023.
Erie, Pennsylvania's Baregrounds works the boundary between death metal and metalcore, a newly formed act whose 2025 formation signals fresh blood in the Great Lakes underground.
Santa Cruz sludge metal outfit Barf leans into the genre's grimy, low-tuned heaviness, adding a dose of West Coast irreverence through a name that doubles as a statement of intent.
Avant-garde tech-death trio channeling Gorguts and Deathspell Omega. Drummer Jason Roe is ex-Between the Buried and Me. Released on Willowtip and I, Voidhanger Records.
Brattleboro, Vermont's Barishi blended progressive and sludge metal with nature-themed imagery before their split, earning recognition through appearances on Season of Mist's 2016 sampler and leaving members to continue in the project Ordh.
A Los Angeles-based power/thrash metal recording project helmed by Chris Rydo, Barking Spider features rotating guest musicians across its releases and has maintained an active presence in the underground since the early 2000s.
A raw black metal and dungeon synth project from Jonesboro, Georgia, Barksdale explores themes of nature, paganism, and anti-Christianity within the stripped-down aesthetic of the underground black metal tradition.
Boise, Idaho's Barn began as a straightforward death metal act before evolving toward the technical end of the genre, representing a common trajectory among serious underground acts of the early 2020s.
One of the pioneering Christian heavy metal bands in the United States, Barnabas formed in 1977 and helped lay early groundwork for faith-based hard rock and metal before splitting up.
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