Pittsburgh's Last Will stretch thrash metal across a progressive skeleton, threading speed and technical ambition into songs that reward repeat listens as much as they reward headbanging.

California-based black metal solo project active since 2011, Lastat operates in the shadows of the genre's most misanthropic traditions — cold, unrelenting, and deliberately obscure.

Formed in Oakland, Illinois in 2019, Latem plays meat-and-potatoes thrash with the kind of unpretentious intensity that suggests they care more about the riffs than the hype.

Anonymous* Activist Band, focused on immigrant rights and the cultures that bring life to the Americas. Fast shredding 8 string guitar riffs accompanied by pummeling drums and accented soundscapes brings the listener on a chaotic journey.

Roseburg, Oregon's Latter Day Exploits weld industrial metal's mechanical hostility to black metal's nihilistic fire — a claustrophobic combination built for the digital age's darkest corners.

Blackened grindcore colliding with death metal at full speed, Laughing and Lying produce short, violent bursts of noise designed to disorient and devastate in equal measure.

Laura Jane Grace is best known as the founder and frontwoman of Against Me!, whose 2014 album 'Transgender Dysphoria Blues' became a landmark in punk rock history as one of the first major punk records to address transgender identity head-on. As a solo artist, her work strips back the punk fury to reveal raw, confessional folk-punk songwriting rooted in her experiences with gender dysphoria, addiction, and resilience. Her memoir 'Tranny' and her body of work have made her one of punk's most important and courageous voices.

Indianapolis doom/power metal outfit Lavaborne forge heavy, dramatic music from the tension between soaring melodic ambition and earth-shaking low-end weight, active since 2017.

Houston sludge outfit Lavos drag their riffs through the bayou, piling on layers of feedback and distortion with the swampy menace that only Texas can fully deliver.