Rochester's stoner metal crew pilots a vessel loaded with fuzz-soaked riffs and woozy desert grooves, pulling hard on the tiller since 2015. Their sound sits somewhere between a bar-room strut and a narcotics-induced drift.

New York progressive metal act whose layered song structures and shifting time signatures reward patient listeners, building elaborate compositions that carry the density of glacial formations in slow, inevitable motion.

New York heavy metal practitioners who have been delivering no-nonsense traditional metal workouts since 2018, built on strong riffs and classic structures that trust the songs to speak for themselves.

New York black/sludge outfit operating in the space between blackened tremolo ferocity and the slow, grinding weight of sludge — an uneasy tension that gives their sound a lurching, unpredictable menace.

Brooklyn's Ikillya has spent over a decade sharpening a sound that pits thrash aggression against metalcore intensity and groove metal swagger, forging something street-hardened and distinctly New York.

Buffalo's Immolated keeps death metal's founding principles intact: grinding riffs, unrelenting rhythms, and an aesthetic that owes nothing to trends — a decade-plus of underground devotion.

Immolation are death metal royalty from Yonkers, New York, delivering some of the genre's most dissonant and technically challenging music since forming in 1988. Guitarist Robert Vigna's unconventional, atonal riffing style and Ross Dolan's cavernous vocals on albums like 'Close to a World Below' and 'Majesty and Decay' set them apart from the more straightforward brutality of their peers. Their influence on technical and dissonant death metal is profound, inspiring bands who seek to push the genre beyond its traditional boundaries.

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.

New York's Immortal Rotting has spent nearly two decades at the intersection of death and doom, where the tempo slows to a crawl and the heaviness becomes genuinely oppressive.