Napalm Death
 Zandra Productions presents Napalm Death. The Birmingham, UK group were grindcore before there was grindcore. Starting back in the 1980s, the band came to be one of the early innovators in the genre and continuing with it to the present day. Their fifteenth album, Utilitarian, came out in 2012.

Voivod
 Jonquire, QC thrash.

Exhumed
 San Jose, CA death metal.

Iron Reagan
 Richmond, VA hardcore.