Santa Cruz, California's Scowl, fronted by the magnetic Kat Moss, deliver a furious blend of hardcore punk and power-pop that has made them one of the most exciting crossover acts in the modern punk scene. Their 2022 album 'Psychic Dance Routine' on Flatspot Records showcased a band willing to blend raging hardcore with sugary melodies and surf-rock guitar tones. Scowl's ability to pack genuine menace and joyful energy into sub-two-minute songs has earned them widespread acclaim and tours with everyone from Turnstile to Drain.

Punishing Brutal Death Metal from Eagle Lake.

Austin noise rock pioneers. David Yow and David Wm. Sims went on to form The Jesus Lizard.

Houston's Screamer have been flying the flag for traditional heavy metal since 2011, drawing from the same well as the NWOBHM pioneers and early American metal acts who turned amplification into something anthemic and defiant. Their songs lead with guitar melodies that have actual hooks — memorable, fist-raising moments built for stages in sweaty clubs — delivered with a vocalist whose range tips the cap to the genre's golden era. Houston's metal underground is vast and varied, and Screamer represent its most classically inclined corner.

Emerging from Alabama in 2022, Screams of Desolation operate in the depressive and suicidal black metal tradition — a subgenre defined by its emotional rawness, lo-fi production values, and a willingness to dwell in psychological extremity that most metal won't approach. The Bandcamp URL itself signals their alignment with that scene's specific intensity. There's something fitting about this kind of inward, desolate black metal being born in the Deep South, where isolation takes on its own particular texture.

Named for the Hockomock Swamp — a legendarily haunted stretch of southeastern Massachusetts that Native Americans called a place of evil spirits — Weymouth's Screams of Hockomock have been channeling that unsettling regional folklore into melodic death/black metal since 2018. The swamp's history of mysterious lights, cryptid sightings, and indigenous warning legends makes it an appropriately eerie muse for music that blends melodic death metal's emotional sweep with black metal's atmospheric menace. Local mythology as metal fuel, executed with genuine craft.

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Anthemic traditional heavy metal with a historical bent. Signed to Germany's Golden Core/ZYX Records. Have shared stages with Saxon, Voivod, Manilla Road, and Hammerfall.

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