(god-rot) is a progressive death metal and grindcore outfit from Rochester, New York. The band made their mark with their 2022 self-titled full-length, an eight-track album that fuses the technical ambition of progressive death metal with the frenzied velocity of grindcore.

...and Here I Lie is a death/doom project from Holley, New York, active from 1996 to 2000 across four releases including the full-length "Regrets." The project combined the crushing weight of funeral pace doom with guttural death metal vocals and bleak, introspective themes. Tracks like "pastures of wandered sounds" and "days of isolation" reflect a deeply melancholic strain of late-90s death/doom.

.springofdrownedpanda. is a sludge metal project from Peekskill, New York, named after the cursed springs of Ranma 1/2. Active since 2009, the project's self-titled EP features five tracks of crushing sludge with absurdist titles referencing the anime's mythology. A 2021 follow-up single continued the theme, suggesting a project as devoted to its conceptual humor as to its crushing low-end.

10-50 Nightmare is a death metal and groove metal band from Rotterdam, New York, debuting in 2024 with a self-titled four-track EP. Named after the police code for a traffic accident, the band plays a blend of chunky groove riffs and death metal aggression with an in-your-face attitude. Tracks like "Watch Your Tude Bro" and "You Make Me Feel Hatred" establish the band's confrontational tone.

13 Candles is a traditional heavy metal band from Dix Hills on Long Island, New York, active since 2014 with a 13-track full-length. The band plays classic, riff-driven heavy metal in the NWOBHM tradition, with tracks like "Disbelievers" and "Xenomorph" nodding to the genre's sci-fi and horror roots. Their sound keeps the flame of traditional metal burning on Long Island.

137 is a sludge metal project that relocated from Petoskey, Michigan to the Rochester/Canandaigua area of New York, releasing an eight-track debut in 2024. The album features unconventional instrumentation — including bass clarinet — woven into a framework of crushing sludge. The project brings an experimental, avant-garde approach to heavy, distorted music.

East Meadow, Long Island NWOTHM project. The military-mission name pairs with Long Island's suburban setting for classic heavy metal with a sense of duty.

3 is an American progressive rock and metal band formed in Woodstock, New York in 1994 by guitarist and vocalist Joey Eppard, his brother Josh Eppard on drums, and bassist Chris Bittner. The band built a reputation through intensive touring, including dates supporting Porcupine Tree, and signed with Metal Blade Records, releasing The End Is Begun in 2007 and The Ghost You Gave to Me in 2011. Their music blends melodic hard rock with progressive architecture and introspective lyricism, placing them alongside acts like Coheed and Cambria in the American progressive rock underground.

Middletown, New York groove metal project whose name combines cannabis culture with rhythmic violence. Hudson Valley heaviness built for headbanging at any elevation.