San Francisco's Genghis Bong play psychedelic doom metal thick with haze and slow-motion riffing, formed in 2023 out of the Bay Area's fertile heavy underground. The name tells you everything you need to know about their priorities.

Pittsburgh's Genghis Khan draw from heavy, power, and speed metal traditions to build music with scope and ambition, active since 2014. Classic influences run strong here, delivered with the no-nonsense energy of Pennsylvania's steel-city underground.

Pelham, New York's Genghis Khan strip the approach down to straight thrash metal — fast riffs, aggressive delivery, and no detours into power metal territory — since their 2014 formation. A leaner take on the imperial name.

Formed in Poughkeepsie, New York in 2004, Genghis Tron built an early reputation on their disorienting fusion of blast-beat grindcore and programmed electronic sequences, eschewing a live drummer entirely on their first releases. Their 2006 debut Dead Mountain Mouth on Crucial Blast and the 2008 Relapse Records follow-up Board Up the House pushed cybergrind into challenging IDM and ambient territory. After a decade-long hiatus, the band returned in 2021 with Dream Weapon, recorded with Kurt Ballou, featuring their first human drummer and a more meditative, psychedelic direction.

Houston's Genital Grinder have been a fixture of the Texas death metal underground since 2002, a two-decade run that puts them among the genre's more resilient local acts. Brutal by name and by nature.

Los Angeles's Genital Shame approach experimental black metal from an oblique angle, founded in 2022 with a sound that courts discomfort as much as aggression. Provocative in name and in practice.

Louisville, Kentucky's Gennembore arrived in 2023 carrying the weight of their city's sludge and doom heritage into raw black metal terrain. New, but already steeped in the kind of darkness Louisville does particularly well.

Crushing Grindcore / Death Metal out of Texas.

Tucson's Genocaust deliver brutal death metal from the Sonoran Desert with a sound as arid and punishing as the landscape since 2012. Low-tuned, heavy, and unrelenting — desert brutality at its most direct.