Hailing from Massapequa Park on Long Island, Damaged have been keeping the old-school thrash flame alive since 2014 with riff-driven, pit-ready material. Their approach is rooted in the classic East Coast thrash tradition, unpolished and uncompromising.

New York's Damnatum traffic in cold, uncompromising black metal that prizes atmosphere as much as aggression. Active since 2012, the project channels the underground's most unrelenting traditions into a raw and unyielding output.

New York's Dark Eden take a different path than their Michigan namesake, blending gothic atmosphere into black metal's framework for something moodier, more ornate, and shot through with shadow. Since 2011, they've made darkness feel architectural.

A Long Island black metal project that emerged in 2021, Dark Frost channels the genre's raw, atmospheric roots into a sound that feels both ancient and immediate.

Long Island's Darkness Incarnate arrived in 2023 with Farmingdale black metal steeped in the raw, stripped-back aesthetics of the genre's underground tradition. New York's outer boroughs and suburban zones have long cultivated extreme metal out of the spotlight, and this project continues that lineage.

Rochester's Dead Bitch smear black metal's corrosive atmosphere across a sludge metal backbone, producing something uglier and more dissonant than either genre achieves alone. Since 2016, they've been one of upstate New York's most confrontational live acts.

Brooklyn's Death Icon fuse death and black metal within the borough's fierce underground, combining death metal's brute force with black metal's tremolo-heavy atmosphere since 2017. New York City's density and darkness seep into every passage of their recorded material.

Irvington, New York's Death Island traveled from punk roots to a mature blackened death metal sound over the course of their career, growing increasingly complex and atmospheric along the way. Formed in 2022, the Hudson Valley act brings melodic sensibility to extreme metal's harshest textures.

Schenectady deathcore act Declension arrived in 2022 trafficking in dense, down-tuned death metal attack bolstered by the mechanical precision of modern deathcore. Their name implies collapse — and the music delivers on the promise.