Punishing Technical / Progressive Death Metal out of Texas.

Austin psychedelic doom — Muddy Waters sitting in with Mastodon.

Brimstone Coven is a doom metal and occult rock band from Wheeling, West Virginia, formed in 2011 by guitarist Corey Roth, who assembled the group around vocalist 'Big John' Williams and a core of local scene veterans. The band's self-released early material led to a deal with Metal Blade Records in 2014, with their Metal Blade debut appearing that same year and Black Magic following in 2016, both records rooted in the Black Sabbath and Pentagram tradition with additional influence from Led Zeppelin and early Pink Floyd. They later moved to Ripple Music for The Woes of a Mortal Earth (2020).

Scorching Black Metal from Houston.

Broadside formed in Richmond, Virginia in 2010 and grew from a regional pop-punk act into a polished alternative rock band centered on Oliver Baxxter's vocals and emotionally direct songwriting. Old Bones established the band for Pure Noise-era pop-punk listeners, with "Coffee Talk" and related songs using bright guitars, quick tempos, and anxious romantic detail. Paradise and Into the Raging Sea broadened the palette, bringing bigger production, more varied rhythms, and a willingness to let the songs lean into pop without removing the guitar foundation. Hotel Bleu and later material with Thriller Records continued that shift, emphasizing atmosphere, hooks, and adult restlessness while keeping the band connected to the scene that first supported them. Broadside are not heavy, but they fit the punk and emo-pop scope through their roots, touring context, and guitar-based urgency. Their strongest work turns self-doubt, distance, reinvention, and relationship strain into compact choruses, and the band's history shows a gradual move from fast scene pop punk toward modern alternative rock without severing the original emotional vocabulary completely.

Brodequin is a brutal death metal band from Knoxville, Tennessee, formed in 1998 by brothers Jamie and Mike Bailey, named after the medieval torture instrument used to crush limbs. Unusually for the genre, their lyrics—written by Jamie Bailey, a history graduate—focus on historically documented instances of medieval torture and execution rather than invented gore. The band released Instruments of Torture (2000), Festival of Death (2001), and Methods of Execution (2004) before a lengthy hiatus; they reformed in 2015 and released Harbinger of Woe via Season of Mist in 2024.

Broken Hope is a Chicago, Illinois death metal band formed in 1988 by guitarist Jeremy Wagner while still in high school. Their debut Swamped in Gore (1991) was notable for being the first digitally recorded death metal full-length, and it secured the band a deal with Metal Blade Records, who released a run of albums including The Bowels of Repugnance (1993), Repulsive Conception (1995), Loathing (1997), and Grotesque Blessings (1999). The band reunited in 2012 with a new vocalist and have remained active, releasing material through Metal Blade.

Broughton's Rules is a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania instrumental post-rock and math rock band founded in 2009 by members including guitarist Jeff Ellsworth, formerly of Don Caballero and Blunderbuss. Their debut album Bounty Hunter 1853, released on Relapse Records in 2010, was praised for blending heavy post-rock, Krautrock, and Morricone-influenced guitar work, with the band explicitly distancing themselves from technical math rock conventions in favor of song-first composition. Their instrumental approach positions them at the intersection of Don Caballero's angular math formalism and the more atmospheric textures of post-metal.

Lovecraft-obsessed one-man project of droning black metal colliding with funeral doom. Three albums on Moribund Records before dissolving in 2008 after just two years.