Los Angeles, California metalcore act formed in 2022, entering a city with an enormous and competitive heavy music scene and aiming to carve out space within contemporary metalcore's blend of crushing breakdowns and melodic tension.

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Kansas City, Missouri death metal act formed in 2019, bringing the genre's extremity to the heartland with a name that frames their music as an exercise in sustained punishment and a commitment to uncompromising brutality.

Washington state death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2014, combining the technical and compositional aggression of death metal with grindcore's economy and explosive speed — a combination well-represented in the Pacific Northwest underground.

Fort Wayne, Indiana outfit formed in 2018 who draw from the deep well of stoner, doom, and sludge metal, building songs around heavy, slow-rolling riffs and oppressive atmospheres that reward patience and reward volume.

Westminster, California industrial thrash act formed in 2024, merging the mechanical, abrasive texture of industrial metal with thrash's forward momentum — a combination that leans into the cold, dystopian side of both genres.

Los Angeles, California thrash metal outfit formed in 2018, one of many bands keeping the flame lit in a city that played a significant role in thrash's development, delivering straight-ahead riff-driven metal under the Bandcamp handle 'jinxthreethirteen.'

Oakland, California outfit formed in 2018 who fuse stoner metal's hazy, fuzz-drenched weight with crossover thrash's punk-inflected velocity — a pairing that captures something of the Bay Area's tradition of genre-blending heaviness.

Cleveland, Ohio doom metal act formed in 2014, invoking the Wiccan principle of threefold return in both name and approach — slow, deliberate, and heavy in the manner of traditional doom, rooted in a city that has produced some of the most compelling heavy music in the Midwest.