Triumphant Heavy / Power Metal from San Antonio.

Los Angeles veterans Jesters of Destiny carry a psychedelic undercurrent through their heavy metal and hard rock, a band whose long history lends them a distinctive eccentric quality — equal parts carnival chaos and riff-driven power.

Philadelphia's Jesus Piece are one of the most uncompromising acts in modern hardcore and metalcore, their music defined by a suffocating heaviness and relentless intensity that has earned them a devoted following in both scenes since forming in 2018.

Minneapolis outfit JHVA formed in 2024 and immediately staked out a dense intersection of industrial, sludge, and death metal — mechanized, abrasive, and heavy enough to feel like the Twin Cities' coldest February manifested as sound.

Mississippi project Jiangshi — named after the hopping Chinese vampiric reanimated corpse — drags brutal death and black metal through a peculiar, occult-adjacent lens, producing music that is as atmospheric as it is annihilating since 2017.

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Formed in 2015, Jim Breuer and the Loud & Rowdy is the musical project of veteran stand-up comedian Jim Breuer, backed by a band featuring producer and guitarist Rob Caggiano of Anthrax and Volbeat. Their 2016 debut Songs from the Garage on Metal Blade Records channels the classic hard rock of AC/DC and Judas Priest, with AC/DC vocalist Brian Johnson contributing guest vocals to two tracks on the album.

Huntington, West Virginia's Jimi Mitchell approaches neoclassical heavy metal from a deeply technical standpoint, a guitarist whose solo work since 2021 channels baroque compositional structures into a high-energy metal framework.

Mesa, Arizona's Jimmy Eat World became the emotional backbone of early 2000s alternative rock with 'Bleed American,' an album that yielded ubiquitous singles 'The Middle' and 'Sweetness.' Their ability to craft soaring, emotionally resonant rock songs with impeccable melodic instincts — from the ambitious 'Clarity' to the mature 'Futures' — has made them one of the most consistently excellent bands in American rock.