Columbus, Ohio's Attack Attack! became the lightning rod of the electronicore movement in the late 2000s, polarizing listeners with their fusion of Auto-Tuned cleans, synth breakdowns, and metalcore heaviness on their debut 'Someday Came Suddenly.' Their crabcore stance became an internet meme, but the band's influence on the intersection of electronic music and metalcore is undeniable.

Cincinnati power metal project whose 2015 single — featuring a collaboration with Dr. Space — blends cosmic exploration with mythological reference. Echoes Of Mount Ida reaches from ancient Troy to the stars.

Mansfield, Ohio death metal project. The oxymoronic name — autumn implies change, eternal implies permanence — captures the tension at the heart of their heavy music.

Lima, Ohio black metal band channeling the rural Midwest's bleak, windswept emptiness into atmospheric darkness from small-town Northwest Ohio.

Cincinnati heavy metal project with five releases since 2014. Their catalog — spanning the French-titled Musiques immobiles and the blunt Indifferent — reveals a band comfortable with both Continental sophistication and American directness.

Black/doom metal band from Steubenville, Ohio, active since 2004 and named after the one-eyed king of the Fomorians in Irish mythology.

A one-man blackened heavy metal project from Sidney, Ohio, Bartzabel has been active since 2020, exploring occult and fantastical themes alongside personal reflections on love and free thought.

A black/death metal act from Columbus, Ohio active since 2018, with minimal documentation beyond their Metal Archives entry.

Bilmuri is the genre-fluid solo project of Johnny Franck, former guitarist of Attack Attack!, who launched the endeavor from his home studio around 2017. The project careens between djent, pop-punk, country, hip-hop, and metalcore, often within the same song, with Franck's irreverent humor tying it all together. His prolific output and refusal to commit to any single genre has cultivated a devoted online following that thrives on the unpredictability.