Publicist UK are a New York post-punk supergroup formed in 2013, bringing together members of Municipal Waste, Revocation, Freshkills, and Goes Cube to craft a dark, propulsive take on post-punk that draws as much from Joy Division as from hardcore. Their 2015 debut Forgive Yourself was released on Relapse Records to widespread critical attention, distinguished by the caliber of its members and the seriousness of its songwriting.

New York black/death metal project Putrid Omen arrived in 2023, steeped in the kind of malevolent, war-metal-adjacent atmosphere that has defined the East Coast underground's harder edges. Short on information but long on intent, they add another dark corner to the already crowded but vital New York extreme metal scene.

Long Island's Pyrexia are veterans of the brutal death metal underground dating back to 1993, known for their suffocating low-end density and punishing groove that helped define the New York brutal death sound, with their catalog spanning early extremity to mid-period death-groove experiments.

Brooklyn's Pyrolatrous channel the blackened melodic death metal tradition into a modern, technically precise form, threading scorched atmosphere and lead-driven melody through aggressive riffwork that draws on both Scandinavian melodeath and raw black metal since 2016.

Brooklyn's Pyrrhon are among the most challenging voices in experimental death metal, dismantling the genre's conventions through dissonant, writhing song structures informed by noise, free jazz, and avant-garde sensibilities that have made them a cult fixture since 2010.

A Brooklyn, New York project that bends psychedelic doom into experimental territory, Python draws on the city's eclectic underground to produce hazy, hallucinatory heaviness that drifts far from conventional song structure into something genuinely strange and immersive.

Rock Hill, New York's Python carry the torch of no-frills thrash metal, delivering the genre's classic hallmarks — rapid-fire riffing, aggressive delivery, and a raw attack — from the Hudson Valley's underground metal community since forming in 2017.

Floral Park, New York's Pytt are a death metal act formed in 2023, bringing the underground aggression of the greater New York metropolitan area to bear through a sound rooted in the genre's foundational brutality and uncompromising intensity.

Rochester, New York's Pâro work in the emotionally resonant space between progressive doom and post-metal, building slow-unfolding compositions that balance melodic introspection with immense heaviness, drawing on upstate New York's understated but consistently vital underground since 2019.