Salt Lake City's Call of Madness fuse melodic death and traditional heavy metal into a dynamic sound that has been active since 2016, balancing brutality with accessible hooks.

A short-lived Philadelphia death/doom project, Call of Pripyat channeled sorrow, bleakness, and apocalyptic dread into crushing compositions before splitting up in 2022.

Call of the Void formed in Denver, Colorado around 2010, formerly operating as Ironhorse, and quickly established themselves as one of the heaviest acts in the American underground by blending grindcore blast beats with crust punk grit and sludge metal weight. Signed to Relapse Records, the band released Dragged Down a Dead End Path (2013), Ageless (2015), and Buried in Light (2019). Their approach draws equally from 1980s hardcore aggression and the nihilistic density of doom.

San Diego's Call of the Wild blend heavy, doom, and stoner metal with hard rock into a thick, riff-driven sound that has been rolling since 2020.

Allentown, Pennsylvania's Call Off Dead traffic in doom and sludge metal, stacking slow, oppressive riffs into a dense wall of sound since 2019.

Melodic death metal outfit from Coachella, California, Call Upon Your Gods have been honing their hook-laden yet aggressive approach since forming in 2017.

A death/thrash act from North Carolina, Calling Hour formed in 2007 and operated as an independent underground project.

Formed in 2024 in Coventry, Rhode Island, Calling the Eternal meld groove and thrash metal with metalcore tendencies into a hard-hitting, contemporary hybrid sound.

Thrash metal band from Marysville, Washington, Calloused started in 1994 before eventually changing their name, leaving a modest footprint in the Pacific Northwest underground.