A brand new thrash metal band out of Providence, Rhode Island, Skinned Alive (formed 2025) plant themselves firmly in the crossover tradition of that city's historically active hardcore and punk scene.

San Jose's Skinner, formed in 2022, blend the melodic ambition of power metal with the velocity of thrash — a Bay Area project that draws on the region's rich legacy of high-energy, technically inclined heavy metal.

Heavy Sludge / Death Metal / Hardcore out of Texas.

Corona, California's Skinslip work the intersection of sludge and doom, conjuring slow, weight-bearing riffs that reflect the smoggy, sun-bleached desolation of the Inland Empire since their formation in 2014.

A black metal act from Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, Skitchrist have been operating in the small-town underground since 2013, crafting adversarial, lo-fi black metal with a provincial rawness that suits their rural central PA origins.

Pomona, California's Skitz bring a heavy metal and hard rock sensibility to the Inland Empire underground, a scene formed since 2011 that blends the blue-collar grit of the 626 with classic heavy riffing.

One of New Jersey's longest-running underground metal acts, Helmetta's Skitzo have been honing their progressive power and speed metal craft since 1985 — a band whose four decades of persistence speaks to a genuine devotion to the technical, melodic end of the genre.

Skizofrenia was a thrash metal band from Limache, Valparaíso, Chile, active from 2012 to 2015 before splitting up. The band started as a tribute act before developing original material, playing in Chile's Valparaíso region during their brief run.

Minneapolis's Skjolden, formed in 2025, pursue a melodic black/death metal sound named after a Norwegian fjord village — marrying Scandinavian-influenced melodicism with the intensity of death metal in the tradition of Minneapolis's long-running extreme metal underground.