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Cold are a Jacksonville, Florida outfit fronted by the singular Scooter Ward, who crafted an atmospheric, melancholy strain of post-grunge and alternative metal that set them apart from the harder-edged nu metal pack during their late-1990s rise. Their 2000 breakthrough 13 Ways to Bleed on Stage and its follow-up Year of the Spider (2003) both went Gold, with the latter reaching number three on the Billboard 200 and producing the moody radio hit "Stupid Girl," establishing Cold as one of the more emotionally resonant acts of the era.
Manchester, Connecticut's Crown of Life fuses groove and thrash metal with alternative metal's broader sonic palette, occupying an accessible but still heavy corner of New England metal. Their sound is hooky without sacrificing bite.
Suffocating Stoner / Doom Metal / Alternative Rock from Los Angeles, California / El Paso.
Dub War are a metal band from Newport, Wales, formed in 1993, built around vocalist Benji Webbe alongside guitarist Jeff Rose, bassist Richie Glover, and drummer Martin 'Ginge' Ford. Their fusion of heavy metal, punk, reggae rhythms, and dub effects made them early progenitors of what critics termed 'ragga metal,' and the band released two albums on Earache Records — Pain (1995) and Wrong Side of Beautiful (1996) — before disbanding in 1999. They reunited in 2014 and released Westgate Under Fire in 2022, their first album of new material in over two decades.
Devastating Death Metal (early); Deathcore (mid); Alternative Rock / Nu-Metal (later) from Arlington.
San Francisco's Faith No More need little introduction: since their mid-1980s beginnings they redefined what metal and rock could be, and their 2015 reunion confirmed that their restless, genre-dissolving approach to avant-garde alternative metal still has nowhere obvious to land.
Los Angeles-based Helmet carry the legacy of one of alternative metal's most rhythmically sophisticated bands — a unit whose chugging, off-kilter groove has influenced countless acts across heavy music since the early 1990s. Their locked-in, hypnotic attack remains as distinctive as ever.
Central California's Orcutt-based death/groove/alternative hybrid brings an unpredictable stylistic restlessness to the table, fusing groove metal's rhythmic punch with death metal grit and alternative metal's appetite for texture.
Athens, Georgia duo Jucifer are notorious for hauling one of the largest live speaker walls in underground metal and deploying it to devastating effect, channeling sludge, doom, drone, and punk into a wall-of-sound assault that defies easy categorization. Active since 2006, they remain one of the most extreme live acts in American heavy music.
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