Buffalo, New York grindcore outfit with three releases since 2018. Their full-length Architects of Aggression and split with Ruin establish them as key players in Western New York's extreme music scene, delivering the rapid-fire violence the genre demands.

Olympia, Washington death/thrash project named after humanity's geological era of environmental impact. Their 2016 EP Bitter Beginnings channels eco-anxiety through aggressive metal from the Pacific Northwest capital.

Montague, Massachusetts death metal project with five releases since 2019, including the unflinching Abuse of a Corpse and the more literary Death Fugue. Prolific and brutal, channeling the Pioneer Valley's isolated rural atmosphere into visceral extremity.

Marion, Indiana grindcore act with three releases since 2015. Their full-length Luciform and the later Climbing Agnes deliver relentless blasts of fury from a small Midwestern city, the kind of overlooked town where extreme music provides an essential outlet.

Black metal project of unknown origin with three self-numbered EPs since 2018. The Old West name evokes frontier vigilante justice, recontextualized through raw, lawless black metal that refuses to identify its location.

Anti Human is a Black/Death Metal band that formed in Cali, Colombia in 2009, later relocating to Madrid, Spain. The band released their debut full-length Black Death in 2013, followed by Reflections of the Black Sun in 2021 via StillBorn Twins Records.

Death metal project delivering nihilistic extremity from an undisclosed location. Their 2022 debut Infinite Warfare Protocol and follow-up single channel misanthropic fury through punishing death metal that lives up to its uncompromising name.

Los Angeles thrash metal outfit active since 2009, delivering conceptual thrash across multiple releases. The Battle of Mechanopolis builds a sci-fi narrative while Humans Are the Dumbest Animal takes a more satirical aim, all wrapped in tight, aggressive LA thrash.

Brooklyn grindcore project grinding away at humanity's pretensions since 2021. Their EPs — Those Who Know Nothing and At the Mercy of the Merciless — deliver rapid-fire violence from New York City's most relentlessly creative borough.