Redwood City, California's Short Fuse play melodic death metal with a Bay Area edge — formed in 2017, the band combine Gothenburg-style melodic leads with the technical precision and intensity characteristic of the Northern California extreme underground.

Boston thrash act Shortfuse formed in 2022, arriving into a city with deep metal roots and dedicating themselves to the classic, speed-driven end of the thrash spectrum with an approach that favors aggression and directness over progressive embellishment.

Shortie was a nu metal and alternative metal band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1998 and signed to Earache Records. The band released two studio albums—Watching You Drown and Wipe Your Eyes—during the peak years of the nu metal era before disbanding in 2006. They remained a fixture of the underground California nu metal scene without achieving significant mainstream commercial traction.

Tampa heavy metal and hard rock band Shot formed in 2012, operating under the umbrella of Florida's heavily populated metal scene while keeping their sound rooted in the more classic, riff-forward end of the heavy metal spectrum.

Relentless Goregrind from Austin, Texas / Pennsylvania.

Florence, South Carolina's Shotgun Facelift evolved from brutal deathcore beginnings into a full-on slam and brutal death metal band, bringing maximum heaviness and surgical gore-drenched brutality to the South Carolina underground since 2020.

Grand Forks, North Dakota's Shotgun Facelift play a no-frills strain of groove metal, delivering heavy, mid-paced riffing from one of the most geographically isolated metal scenes in the country since forming in 2020.

San Francisco's Shotgun Facelift take the experimental and technical end of deathcore into genuinely unpredictable territory, founded in 2020 and building a sound that treats the genre's heaviness as raw material for something far more dissonant and architecturally unusual.

Morgantown, West Virginia's Shotgun Surgeon deal in a punishing blend of death metal and deathcore, combining brutal low-end heaviness with the structural savagery that has defined the region's underground extreme scene since their 2014 formation.