Hard-hitting Gothic Metal with Punk influences from Dallas.

New York's Killerwatts charge through thrash and heavy metal with an electrified aggression that suits the name, formed in 2012 and built around the genre's fundamental pleasures: velocity, volume, and riffs that don't let up.

New Orleans' Killgore came out of the gate swinging in 2022, mixing death metal's low-end crush with grindcore's sub-two-minute brutality in a city that knows how to make punishment feel celebratory.

Fresh out of Asheville, North Carolina in 2025, Killiad brew sludge, stoner, and doom into something slow-boiled and heavy as wet earth. Asheville's fertile heavy underground provides the perfect conditions for this kind of deliberate, bone-deep metal.

Los Angeles groove metal act Killing 4 have been working the pummeling mid-tempo pocket since 2015, building songs around the locked-in rhythmic chemistry that makes groove metal satisfying. Heavy, methodical, and rooted in the LA metal scene.

Dynamic Metalcore / Groove Metal out of Texas.

Killspree is a heavy act that channels raw aggression through thrash-influenced metal and hardcore punk intensity. The band delivers fast, violent music built on relentless riffing and high-energy performances designed for the pit. Their uncompromising approach reflects a commitment to extreme music's DIY underground traditions.

Killswitch Engage are the band that brought metalcore to the mainstream, forming in Westfield, Massachusetts in 1999 and essentially codifying the genre's blueprint of melodic singing over crushing breakdowns. Albums 'Alive or Just Breathing' and 'The End of Heartache' are canonical metalcore records, with both vocalist eras (Jesse Leach and Howard Jones) producing essential material. Their cover of Dio's 'Holy Diver' became an unlikely hit, and their influence on every metalcore band that followed is beyond calculation.

Razor-sharp Hard Rock / Thrash Metal out of Texas.