An Atlanta black metal curiosity formed in 2023 by a then-13-year-old frontman, trafficking in occult, gore, and violence across two self-released demos.

A black/death metal act from Columbus, Ohio active since 2018, with minimal documentation beyond their Metal Archives entry.

A death/doom project from Bristol, Connecticut active since 2020, with no released recordings yet catalogued.

A black/death metal band from New Brighton, Pennsylvania formed in 1988, later changing their name and surfacing on compilations through Thrash Records across the following decades.

A New York sludge/doom outfit with industrial undercurrents active from 2008 to around 2013, releasing material through Seventh Rule Recordings and appearing on several early-2010s metal compilations.

Bayside formed in Queens in 2000 and built one of the most durable catalogs in the emo and pop-punk world by sounding older, darker, and more disciplined than many of their peers. Anthony Raneri's voice and songwriting give the band its center: melodic but edged with bitterness, self-interrogation, and a dry humor that keeps the drama from feeling hollow. Sirens and Condolences and the self-titled album introduced the core blend of tight punk rhythms, sharp lead guitar work, and confessional choruses, while The Walking Wounded, Shudder, Killing Time, Cult, Vacancy, Interrobang, and There Are Worse Things Than Being Alive proved the formula had long legs. Jack O'Shea's guitar lines are a major part of the identity, adding classic-rock precision and restless movement to songs that could otherwise sit comfortably in scene-punk territory. Bayside are not heavy in the metal sense, but they belong in punk-adjacent scope through intensity, touring history, and emotional force. Their best songs make disappointment sound controlled rather than collapsed, turning personal wreckage into tightly written, repeatable anthems.

Bayway formed in Elizabeth, New Jersey in late 2022 and quickly became one of the loudest new voices in New Jersey hardcore. The band's sound is blunt, heavy, and streetwise, mixing metallic hardcore breakdowns with rap-influenced vocal rhythms, mosh-ready pacing, and lyrics rooted in loyalty, struggle, confrontation, and local identity. Early releases such as World of Bayway introduced a stripped-down, self-recorded attack that felt indebted to 1990s NJHC while still fitting the modern beatdown landscape. Later material, including Word Is Bond, Bayway Takes Manhattan, and The Recipe, sharpened the group's personality with thicker production, guest features, and a more pronounced mix of hip-hop cadence and hardcore violence. Fronted by Jayway, the band has built a reputation around direct crowd engagement, regional pride, and unpolished charisma. Bayway's music is not subtle; it thrives on repetition, impact, and the physical release that makes hardcore shows feel communal and chaotic.

Ferocious Crossover / Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Bedemon was an American doom metal project active in recordings from 1973, formed by Pentagram guitarist Randy Palmer alongside bandmates Bobby Liebling and Geof O'Keefe. Never a performing band, the project existed solely in home recordings that captured an early and raw form of what would become doom metal, all recorded on home equipment and never intended for public release. The recordings were finally collected and issued as Child of Darkness: From the Original Master Tapes in 2004; a second album, Symphony of Shadows, was completed posthumously after Palmer's death in August 2002.