The Oneonta, New York project Glass Skeleton Death March carries a name that promises drama and follows through — blending hard rock muscle with heavy metal bone into music that's both hook-laden and rough around the edges. They've marched forward since 2013.

Glassjaw emerged from Long Island, New York in 1993 and became one of the most influential post-hardcore bands of their era through sheer sonic ambition and emotional intensity. Daryl Palumbo's frantic vocal delivery and Justin Beck's dense, effects-laden guitar work on 'Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Silence' and 'Worship and Tribute' pushed post-hardcore into art-rock territory years before it became trendy. Their sporadic release schedule and perfectionist approach only deepened the cult devotion surrounding the band.

Binghamton's Global Death arrived in 2020 with a thrash mandate and an apocalyptic worldview, charging forward with the breakneck riffing and headlong aggression that the genre demands. Short on mercy, long on momentum.

New York's Glorious Depravity wears its death metal allegiances without apology — riff-forward, brutal, and unapologetically ugly in the ways that matter. Since 2018 they've been one of the state's reliable purveyors of the form.

New York's Goat Penis occupy the furthest extreme of slam and brutal death, compressing deathcore breakdowns, gutturals, and grind-adjacent blasting into one relentless assault. Formed in 2022, they wear their ugliness as a badge of honor.

New York's Goatsmoke traffic in the hazy, bone-heavy intersection of stoner and doom, where riffs unspool slowly and the fuzz never fully dissipates. Formed in 2022, they've already developed a sound that feels comfortably lived-in and oppressively thick.

Clarence, New York's Goblin Hovel draw equally from folk tradition and doom metal's downcast weight, weaving a sound that feels ancient and mournful in equal measure. Since 2012, they've ranged across folk, doom, and neofolk with a restless, world-building imagination.

Albany, New York's Goblinectomy apply surgical brutality to their brutal death metal, surgically excising anything soft or restrained from their compositions. Formed in 2022, they are blunt, precise, and relentlessly heavy.

Gorilla Biscuits are a New York City hardcore punk band whose brief original run left a permanent mark on youth crew hardcore and melodic punk. Formed in 1986 with Anthony "Civ" Civarelli, Walter Schreifels, Arthur Smilios, and collaborators from the New York hardcore scene, the band released a self-titled 7-inch and the landmark Start Today before splintering into other influential projects. Gorilla Biscuits fit punk scope directly through hardcore punk, straight-edge-associated youth crew culture, and Revelation Records history. Their music is fast, optimistic, and tightly written, using short songs, bouncing rhythms, and shouted choruses to carry messages about friendship, self-respect, scene unity, and personal direction. They were less metallic than some New York hardcore peers, but their influence on melodic hardcore and later punk is enormous. Start Today in particular showed that hardcore could be urgent and positive without losing bite, and Walter Schreifels' songwriting became a bridge toward Quicksand, CIV, Rival Schools, and broader post-hardcore developments. Gorilla Biscuits endure because their catalog is concise, energetic, and unusually generous in spirit while still sounding unmistakably like New York hardcore.