Savage Melodic Black / Death Metal from San Antonio.

Savage Black Metal from Austin.

Los Angeles sleaze rockers Buckcherry brought the Sunset Strip spirit into the new millennium when they formed in 1995, channeling AC/DC and Aerosmith through frontman Josh Todd's raspy, street-level swagger. Their 2006 comeback album '15' spawned the massive hit 'Crazy Bitch' and returned them to the hard rock spotlight after an early-2000s breakup. The band remains unapologetically committed to loud, lewd, guitar-driven rock and roll.

Bulb is the solo project of Misha Mansoor, a Washington DC-born guitarist best known as a co-founder of progressive metal band Periphery. Mansoor began posting instrumental demos under the Bulb alias on SoundClick in 2004, amassing a significant online following and becoming one of the earliest figures associated with the djent movement. His debut proper full-length, Moderately Fast, Adequately Furious, arrived in 2021, formalizing a catalog of over 125 compositions that had circulated online for years.

Blistering Groove / Thrash Metal from Houston.

Grinding Sludge Metal out of Texas.

Devastating Death Metal out of Texas.

Burial Oath rise from Cleveland, Ohio channeling the cold fury of Scandinavian black metal through an American lens, drawing inspiration from Watain, Taake, and Mayhem. Founded in 2016, the band weaves death rituals and occult Satanic themes through raw, tremolo-picked aggression and blast-beat fury. Their devotion to the second wave black metal aesthetic gives them an authenticity that resonates with purists of the genre.

Burieth is a death metal band from Medellín, Colombia that formed in the mid-1990s and later split up. Their 1995 demo Ancestral Legacy features seven tracks blending English and Spanish lyrics, and the track "Desolacion" appeared on the 2001 Sylphorium Records/Tribulación Productions compilation Emetic Desecration: Brutal Grind Death Metal Compilation.