Rochester, New York's Killed with Cash have been shredding crossover thrash since 2014, carrying on the genre's blue-collar irreverence with riffs that hit as hard as the humor. Part Leeway, part Municipal Waste, fully upstate New York.

New York's Killerwatts charge through thrash and heavy metal with an electrified aggression that suits the name, formed in 2012 and built around the genre's fundamental pleasures: velocity, volume, and riffs that don't let up.

Queens-bred and uncompromising, Last Legion fuses black metal's icy hostility with death metal's brutality into a sound that feels like the borough's concrete compressed into sound.

Queens crossover veterans Leeway have been crashing hardcore and thrash together since their reformation in 2012, carrying on a tradition they helped build in the New York underground decades prior. Pit-ready riffs with street-level aggression are their calling card.

Ossining, New York's Left in Ruins pull death metal, thrash, and metalcore into a tightly wound package that has been evolving since 2013. The Hudson Valley band blend aggression and melody without softening the edges of either.

Out of Hopewell Junction, Leprosy mash crossover thrash's speed and aggression with creeping doom tempos, carving out a peculiar niche in the Hudson Valley underground since 2021.

Hailing from Westchester County, New York, Meanstreak occupy the crossroads of power, thrash, and old-school heavy metal — a hybrid sound that nods to the 1980s New York scene without getting lost in nostalgia. Their catalog moves between the melodic ambition of power metal and the raw, club-ready aggression of early thrash.

Brooklyn's Metal Storm are a thrash outfit forged in 2014 within New York City's dense and competitive underground metal circuit. They draw on the aggressive, rapid-fire riffing of classic East Coast thrash, carrying forward a style that has deep roots in the boroughs of New York.

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.