Skeleton Screen is a Denver, Colorado post-metal and sludge metal band formed in 2020, building slow-burn songs from layers of distorted guitar, dynamic shifts, and the kind of punishing low-end that the Midwest and Mountain West underground has consistently produced. Their work occupies the emotionally heavy territory between Neurosis-style post-metal and traditional sludge.

Originally from Ohio, now Austin-based. Blackened thrash perfection.

Operating out of Juneau, Alaska since 2000, Skeletor blends the twin-guitar punch of power metal with the relentless attack of thrash, an unlikely combination born in one of America's most isolated state capitals.

A young black metal project emerging from Portland, Oregon's underground in 2022, Skeletorture leans into raw, uncompromising darkness — a city known for its fertile extreme metal scene providing fertile ground for this newly formed act.

Seattle's Skell has been grinding out thick, suffocating walls of sludge, drone, and doom since 2017, embodying the Pacific Northwest's long tradition of heaviness with slow-crawling tempos and abrasive textures built to crush.

Fairbanks, Alaska's Skellum has been delivering hard-hitting thrash since 2012, a testament to the tenacity of metal communities thriving in one of the continent's most remote and severe climates.

A freshly formed act out of Everett, Washington, Skelm weds death metal's brutality to hardcore's confrontational urgency, carving out a caustic niche in the Pacific Northwest underground since their 2023 formation.

Connecticut's Skeltima launched in 2023 with a sound that marries the grim atmosphere of black metal to the muscular directness of traditional heavy metal, staking out a place in the state's emerging extreme metal scene.

An Albany, New York-based technical death metal outfit formed in 2022, Skeptic pursues the labyrinthine compositional complexity the genre demands — intricate riffing and rhythmic precision in service of an unyielding sonic assault.