California's Landvættr invoke the Norse spirits of the land through black metal drenched in ambient texture and pagan atmosphere. Active since 2018, they transform the California wilderness into something ancient and untamed.

San Antonio traditional doom metal stalwarts. Recognized alongside Solitude Aeturnus as Texas's premier doom band.

San Antonio's LaSanche have been forging black/death metal in the San Antonio underground since 2017, fusing the genre's most aggressive elements into something that reflects Texas' fierce and uncompromising spirit. They're one of the Alamo City's most notable extreme metal exports.

Last Angel are a US heavy metal act formed in 2020 whose music carries the torch of traditional metal with clean, classic construction. Stripped of frills and built on riffs, they occupy the honest center of the genre.

California power metal act Last Cadence pursue the genre's grand, orchestral ambitions since their 2018 formation, with an emphasis on melodic hooks and epic scope. They carry the tradition of European power metal into American hands.

Arlington, Texas' Last Chapter have spent over a decade crafting slow, crushing doom metal that unfolds with the inevitability their name implies. Since 2010 they've been a quiet but enduring presence in the DFW heavy underground.

Madison, Wisconsin's Last Crack blend progressive complexity with the gut-punch immediacy of groove metal, making music that's simultaneously brainy and bruising. Their Wisconsin roots give their sound a no-nonsense directness that keeps the prog tendencies grounded.

Albuquerque's Last House on the Left named themselves after horror royalty and deliver deathcore with appropriately cinematic brutality since 2006. They've long been one of New Mexico's defining extreme metal acts, operating in the desert far from any major scene.

Austin thrash dealers who have been delivering riff-driven punishment since 2018, channeling the Bay Area's bay-area fury through a distinctly Texas lens.