Afterworldsmen is a melodic death metal band from New York City. With two EPs — "The Youngest Virtue" (2019) and the self-titled 2025 release — the band brings melodic death metal craftsmanship to the NYC metal scene.

Against the Current formed in Poughkeepsie in 2011 and grew from a YouTube-era pop-rock band into an international alternative act with clear pop-punk roots. Chrissy Costanza, Dan Gow, and Will Ferri first built momentum through covers and independent EPs, then developed their own catalog with Infinity and Gravity. In Our Bones established a polished full-length identity with "Running with the Wild Things," "Wasteland," and "Young & Relentless," while Past Lives moved toward sleeker synth-pop and alternative rock. Later singles and Fever brought back more bite, and "Legends Never Die," created with League of Legends, carried the band to a much wider global audience. Against the Current fit punk scope through pop punk and alternative-rock context, especially in their early writing, touring, and scene relationships. They are melodic and highly polished, but the core appeal remains guitar-driven urgency, big choruses, and Costanza's commanding vocal presence. The band works best when pop clarity and rock momentum reinforce each other, turning self-doubt and defiance into songs built for immediate lift.

Age of Apocalypse is a New York hardcore band that incorporates heavy and thrash metal into their breakneck attack. Their 2025 full-length "In Oblivion" arrived on Closed Casket Activities and cemented the band's reputation as one of the hardest-hitting acts in modern NYHC.

Rochester, New York power metal project. Epic metal emerging from the twilight of Western New York.

Agent X is a thrash metal band from Amherst, New York. Their 2023 full-length "The War Will Feed Itself" delivers eight tracks of politically charged thrash from the Buffalo suburb.

Aghast is a death metal band from New York City. With five releases in 2020 alone — including remastered versions of earlier material — the project delivered a concentrated burst of death metal output.

Rochester, New York black metal and grindcore hybrid. Western New York extremity spanning the spectrum from blast beats to tremolo picking.

Agnosis is a doom metal band from New York City. With two EPs — "Hecate" (2005) and "A Painful Pattern" (2012) — the band plays slow, deliberate doom metal that draws from occult and introspective themes.

New York hardcore legends Agnostic Front have been the beating heart of the NYHC scene since forming in Manhattan's Lower East Side in 1980. Vocalist Roger Miret and guitarist Vinnie Stigma built a legacy through essential records like 'Victim in Pain' and 'Cause for Alarm,' bridging hardcore punk with crossover thrash. Over four decades, they've remained fiercely committed to the streets that raised them, serving as elder statesmen of a movement they helped create.