New York City's Damn Your Eyes launched in 2020 with a groove metal attack built on locked-in, bruising rhythms and hard rock attitude. Their sound draws on the mid-90s groove metal tradition while keeping enough rock grit to feel immediate and alive.

New York's Dark After Dawn launched in 2024 at the intersection of melodic death and groove metal, channeling both infectious hooks and crushing rhythmic drive into songs built for the pit as much as the headphones. A promising new presence in the East Coast heavy scene.

Hudson, New York's Dark Fate are something of a shape-shifter — their history spans death metal, grindcore, thrash, groove, and traditional heavy metal, a genre-wandering evolution that makes them genuinely hard to pin down. Two decades of mutation with a riff always at the center.

Brooklyn's Deadzone collide doom, groove metal, and hardcore into something that sounds both crushed by urban weight and ready to erupt — fitting for a New York City band formed in 2016 with no patience for clean resolutions. Heavy, unpolished, and confrontational.

Mount Vernon's Deathsquad has been operating since 2016 at the intersection of death and groove metal, bringing New York's hard-knuckled street energy to a genre pairing built entirely for live pit destruction. Big riffs, bigger breakdowns.

Formed in Albany, New York in 2024, Doomsday Manifesto is a brand-new force in the capital region's metal scene, bringing a groove-soaked brutality to death metal that hits with the blunt authority of a sledgehammer. The band leans into the midtempo pocket where groove metal's rhythmic swagger meets the throat-ripping aggression of death metal, carving out a sound built for heads that bang slow and hard. Still in their earliest days, they're already staking out territory that separates them from the pack.