Dallas's Hell Goat plants Southern metal's flag deep in Texas soil, churning out sludge-laced, groove-heavy riffs drenched in heat and diesel. Formed in 2016, they carry the slow-burning menace of the Lone Star underground with deliberate, swaggering weight.

Green Bay's Hell Hound tears through thrash metal with hardcore's blunt-force directness, making for a brawling hybrid that leaves little room to breathe. Active since 2015, they play fast, short, and mean — no filler, no apologies.

Cookeville, Tennessee's Hell Hound keeps the fires of traditional heavy metal and hard rock burning with blue-collar conviction. Since 2015, the band has delivered straightforward guitar-driven metal rooted firmly in the genre's working-class backbone.

Out of Montpelier, Vermont, Hell Priest sprints through speed metal with a ferocious urgency that sounds entirely at odds with the pastoral Green Mountain state. Since 2019, the band has committed fully to the genre's fastest and most reckless edge.

Downey, California's Hell Razor arrived in 2025 with their blades already sharpened, delivering Bay Area–style thrash with a Southern California hunger for punishment. Though newly emerged, their sound suggests a band that has been building toward this moment for years.

Mechanical Industrial Metal from Dallas.

Lowell, Massachusetts veterans Hell Within have been refining their brand of technically precise metalcore since 2005, well before the genre's peaks and valleys of commercial visibility. Their longevity speaks to a genuine conviction in the sound rather than an eye on any scene's fortunes.

Salt Lake City's Hell9 refuses to settle into any single lane, colliding melodic death metal, black metal, and groove into something restlessly hybrid since 2022. The result is a dense and unpredictable listen that rewards attention to its many shifting parts.

Burlington, Vermont's Hellascope deals in the slow, thick intoxication of stoner-doom, letting riffs unfurl with deliberate weight under a haze of fuzz and feedback. Since 2017 they have operated at the intersection of heaviness and hypnosis.