Black metal act from Ashland City, Tennessee, operating in the shadow of the Appalachian underground since 2015.

Instrumental melodic heavy metal project from Kernersville, North Carolina, treating the guitar as the sole vocal voice in place of a singer.

Seattle psychedelic doom/stoner metal band drawing on the Pacific Northwest's deep tradition of heavy, hazy riffing since 2015.

Philadelphia death metal band formed in 2024 and signed to Horror Pain Gore Death Productions, blending 80s Teutonic thrash with 90s deathgrind across their debut EP Wretched Decrepitude.

Cafeterasub is a Death/Thrash/Groove Metal band from Ambato, Ecuador, with roots stretching back to 1994. Originally founded as a death metal act called Damaged Skull, the band evolved through numerous lineup changes and genre influences to forge a distinct style of their own, releasing full-lengths including Deidades desenmascaradas (2004), Espíritu virus (2007), and the EP Ojos de un dios en celo (2020). They are one of the longer-running metal acts to emerge from Ecuador's central highland region.

Veteran heavy/power metal band from San Diego, California active since 1992 who persevered through the grunge era and went on to open for Iron Maiden, Dio, and Judas Priest, anchored by vocalist Sean Peck and guitarist Dave Garcia.

Philadelphia doom/death metal band that emerged from the ashes of sludge act Black Urn in 2018, releasing the 2023 full-length From Roving About the Earth.

New Jersey doom/death/thrash metal band from Monmouth County, folding all three of heavy metal's most crushing strains into a single sound since 2017.

Oakland post-black metal project formed in 2021 by Tony Thomas and Chelsea Murphy of Dawn of Ouroboros with ex-White Ward drummer Yurii Kononov, debuting on Debemur Morti Productions in 2022.