Brooklyn's Hammerhoid have been gleefully ransacking the intersection of speed, thrash, and black metal since 2014, their New York City chaos lending the music an urgency that straight-up retro acts rarely achieve.

Long Island's Hate have occupied the speed/thrash lane since 2013, channeling the raw aggression of the subgenre's most unrestrained practitioners. Their music is lean, fast, and wears its New York edge plainly.

From Saugerties, New York, Hexe Krieg weaponize the convergence of thrash, death, and speed metal into something relentlessly kinetic. Since 2012 the band has pursued a style that is as mechanically aggressive as it is single-minded in purpose.

Not to be confused with their Norwegian namesake, Bethpage's Immortal has been delivering speed and thrash metal on Long Island since 2002 — fast, precise, and steeped in the classic American underground.

Queens-bred MetalStorm channel the raw fury of the 1980s Bay Area and German speed metal scenes with a ferocity that has sharpened considerably since their 2014 formation. Their thrash riffs are tight and unrelenting, built for the pit, with tempos that rarely let up and vocals that cut through the noise like a serrated blade. They represent the continuing vitality of New York's underground extreme metal community.

Brooklyn, New York's Natur formed in 2008 with a commitment to unadorned traditional heavy metal they describe as "old metal," drawing heavily on NWOBHM and early American speed metal. Their debut full-length Head of Death (2012) and the follow-up Afternoon Nightmare (2020) document a band devoted to high-energy, riff-driven songwriting without genre concession. They emerged when few American bands were playing unapologetic straight-ahead heavy metal and helped anchor a small revival of the form.

Long Island's Original Sin carry the speed and power metal torch with old-school conviction, invoking the twin-guitar tradition of NWOBHM and early American power metal on records built for those who think the genre's golden era never had to end.

Sovereignty is a New York speed/thrash metal band formed in 2019, fusing the velocity of speed metal with the punishing riff structures of classic thrash.

Spater is a speed and thrash metal band from Newark, New York, formed in 2004, blending the kinetic energy of classic speed metal with thrash aggression and punk attitude in the vein of the genre's old-school practitioners.