Chicago's Born of Osiris pioneered a symphonic, keyboard-laden strain of progressive deathcore that set them apart from their peers on albums like 'The Discovery' and 'Tomorrow We Die Alive.' Lee McKinney's technical guitar work and the band's integration of electronic and orchestral elements helped define the Sumerian Records sound of the early 2010s.

Borroza are a death/thrash metal band from Bucaramanga, Santander, Colombia, formed in 2000 and signed to the Colombian label Upzurdo. They released their debut full-length Fantasma in 2008—recorded and mixed at Upzurdo Records in Bucaramanga and mastered in Hollywood—and have contributed tracks to several Colombian metal compilations including Al Filo de Metal Vol. V.

Intense Heavy Metal from Fort Worth.

Boundaries are a metallic hardcore band from Hartford, Connecticut who formed in 2014 and specialize in a vicious blend of hardcore punk and death metal. Their album 'My Body in Bloom' earned acclaim for its relentless aggression and surprisingly melodic undercurrents beneath the chaos. The band channels visceral emotion through a wall of crushing riffs and desperate screams that place them among the most intense acts in modern hardcore.

Devastating Blackened Death Metal from Houston.

Bowling for Soup formed in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1994 and became one of pop punk's most recognizable comic voices without reducing themselves to novelty. Jaret Reddick, Chris Burney, Erik Chandler, and Gary Wiseman built a sound around bright power-pop chords, fast punk tempos, and lyrics that treated embarrassment, aging, romantic failure, and suburban absurdity as shared experiences. Let's Do It for Johnny!! and Drunk Enough to Dance brought the band to a wider audience, while "Girl All the Bad Guys Want" and A Hangover You Don't Deserve made them fixtures of 2000s pop-punk radio. "1985," "Almost," "High School Never Ends," and "Punk Rock 101" work because the jokes are attached to clean melodies and sturdy arrangements, not just punchlines. Later records and constant touring kept the band connected to multiple generations of fans who value their self-awareness and consistency. Bowling for Soup fit the punk scope through their scene history, guitars, and tempo, even when the mood is playful. Their catalog turns arrested adolescence into craft, using humor to make ordinary insecurity feel communal.

Boy Hits Car formed in 1993 in the Los Angeles area with a goal of making melodic heavy music that could survive the force of a high-energy live show. The band developed a sound they called "LoveCore," combining alternative metal, hard rock, world-music accents, emotional lyrics, and the dramatic vocal presence of Cregg Rondell. Their independent debut My Animal set the foundation, but the 2001 self-titled album on Wind-up brought them wider attention, especially through songs like "I'm A Cloud" and "LoveFuryPassionEnergy." The band's music often moves between tribal percussion, 12-string acoustic textures, distorted guitar surges, and cathartic choruses, giving their heavier moments a spiritual and communal tone rather than pure aggression. Later albums such as The Passage, Stealing Fire, and All That Led Us Here continued refining their mix of uplift, turbulence, and groove. Boy Hits Car have remained active across decades through touring and independent releases, sustaining a cult following around emotionally intense performances and an unusually warm take on alt-metal.

Boys Like Girls turned late-2000s pop punk into bright, high-gloss guitar music without losing the urgency that powered the style. Martin Johnson's songwriting gave the band its center: anxious, romantic, immediately singable choruses pushed by ringing guitars, quick tempos, and a knack for hooks that could cross from club rooms to radio. Their self-titled debut broke through with "The Great Escape," "Hero/Heroine," and "Thunder," while Love Drunk sharpened the band's power-pop instincts and expanded its reach. After a long recording gap, Sunday at Foxwoods returned to the emotional and regional memory of the band's early friendships while sounding older, cleaner, and more reflective. The group's best songs work because their polish is charged by restlessness. Even when the production leans pop, the songs still carry a punk-derived pulse: forward motion, compressed feeling, bright guitars in motion, and choruses built like release valves for teenage pressure that matured without losing its snap.

BPMD is an American heavy metal supergroup formed in the summer of 2019, the acronym drawn from its members' initials: Bobby 'Blitz' Ellsworth (Overkill), Mike Portnoy, Phil Demmel (Vio-lence, Machine Head), and Mark Menghi (Metal Allegiance). The band recorded their debut album American Made—a collection of ten covers of 1970s American rock songs by artists including Aerosmith, ZZ Top, and Lynyrd Skynyrd—and released it through Napalm Records in June 2020. The project is a purely celebratory exercise in classic hard rock, built around the members' shared formative influences.