San Diego's Ruinist play a driving blend of melodic death and thrash metal, carving out riff-heavy arrangements that balance aggression with melodic purpose since their formation in 2014.

Formed in Atlanta in 2020, Ruinous Crusade deliver straight-ahead death metal with the punishing heaviness you'd expect from a band whose very name implies relentless forward assault.

Nashville's Ruinous Scourge bring a no-frills death metal approach to a city better known for country, channeling raw brutality and grim atmosphere since forming in 2019.

New Jersey's Ruins have been grinding out heavy, fuzz-saturated stoner metal since 2001, drawing on the genre's psychedelic and blues-soaked roots with a sound built for low-end punishment.

Boston's Rula Bula occupy the slow, suffocating space between doom and traditional heavy metal, pairing monolithic riffs with the kind of brooding weight that's been a Boston underground fixture since 2014.

San Marcos outfit Ruminations blend death metal ferocity with the glacial, suffocating weight of doom, crafting death-doom that leans into oppressive atmosphere and crushing tempo shifts since 2020.

Rumpelstiltskin Grinder were a crossover thrash and death metal band from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 2002 with members drawn from Philadelphia underground acts. The band released three studio albums through Relapse Records — Buried in the Front Yard, Living for Death, Destroying the Rest (2009), and Ghostmaker (2012) — building a reputation for ferocious, straight-ahead thrash before eventually disbanding.

Hard-hitting Melodic Groove Metal / Metalcore from Dallas.

Out of Great Falls, Montana, Runecaller traffic in slow-burning stoner doom, fusing the fuzz-heavy haze of stoner rock with the lumbering dread of doom metal in one of the state's more isolated metal scenes since 2022.