Minnesota's Let It Breathe lace stoner rock's fuzz-drenched groove with genuine doom heaviness, a Mankato outfit that sounds like a blizzard rolling in off the prairie — slow, thick, and inevitable.

Boston metalcore unit Let Us Prey channel the city's hardcore lineage through modern metalcore construction, delivering hook-laden aggression with a predatory edge since 2020.

Richmond, Virginia's Letcher have been hauling stoner and doom metal out of the city's fertile heavy underground since 2006, their sound as weathered and slow-burning as the James River at dusk.

One of America's longest-running progressive power metal acts, Lethal have been crafting keyboard-laced, melodically adventurous heavy metal from Hebron, Kentucky since the mid-1960s — a true institutional presence.

New Brunswick's Lethal Affection deliver classic heavy metal with hard rock swagger, keeping the tradition of arena-ready riffs and earnest melody alive in the Garden State since 2017.

Heavy Heavy Metal from Fort Worth.

Named for a toxic lichen, Santa Cruz's Letharia weave atmospheric black metal and slow-burning doom into something as coastal and creeping as Pacific fog rolling over the Santa Cruz Mountains.

Los Angeles' letlive. burned bright as one of the most incendiary post-hardcore bands of the 2010s, driven by Jason Aalon Butler's unhinged stage presence and the band's genre-defying fusion of hardcore, punk, and soul. Albums like 'Fake History' and 'The Blackest Beautiful' earned them a rabid cult following before Butler went on to form Fever 333.

Southern California post-hardcore outfit Letter Kills emerged from the Temecula desert in 2002 with a riff-heavy blend of hard-charged alternative rock, 80s hair-metal swagger, and punk energy. Their 2004 Island Def Jam debut 'The Bridge' landed them on MTV2 and the Nintendo Fusion Tour alongside My Chemical Romance before the band's untimely split in 2006. A 2023 reunion single co-produced by Joey Bradford of The Used signaled a long-awaited return for the SoCal rockers.