Psychedelic Stoner Metal / Rock from Houston.

Monterey Bay, California's Ms. Fortune are a freshly minted 2024 thrash outfit bringing a coastal California edge to the genre, channeling the classic Bay Area tradition of aggressive, momentum-driven thrash with modern independent spirit.

Cleveland, Ohio's MSOD blur the lines between power, thrash, and traditional heavy metal, pulling from each genre's strengths to craft a hard-hitting, versatile attack that reflects the city's deeply rooted metallic blue-collar heritage since 2020.

Richmond, Virginia's Mt. Forever are a brand-new 2026 stoner metal act drawing from the rich Richmond heavy music tradition, stacking thick, hypnotic riffs in the vein of Southern stoner and heavy psych rock.

Salem, Massachusetts' Mt. Metal carry the weight of their storied city's dark history into a pure heavy metal context, delivering traditional metal with a regional character reflective of New England's occult undercurrent since 2022.

Cleveland, Ohio's Muciferous are a 2024 goregrind and death metal project that leans hard into biological horror, piling up suffocating riffs and blastbeats in the tradition of the most viscerally repulsive extreme metal the underground has to offer.

Townsend, Massachusetts' Mucklers Circle carve out an unusual niche by mixing Southern metal swagger with New England-forged groove and metalcore aggression, resulting in a genre-blurring take on heavy music that has no business working as well as it does since 2015.

Atlanta's MuckRaker have been digging into the Southern metal tradition since 2012, delivering the heavy, groove-soaked, Dixie-rooted metal that Georgia's scene does best with a rawness befitting their name's muck-dwelling imagery.

Formed in Bergenfield, New Jersey in 1986, Mucky Pup played crossover thrash and hardcore with a comedic bent, debuting with Can't You Take a Joke? (1988) on Torrid Records. A Boy in a Man's World (1989) brought the band broader recognition in Europe, where they toured extensively and charted, and they subsequently signed to Century Media Records for Act of Faith (1992). The band went through multiple lineup and stylistic changes before disbanding in the mid-1990s.