Gone Cold is a Modern Metal band from Fredericksburg, Virginia. Formed in the winter of 2022, the band quickly set about writing and preparing songs for their debut EP “Misery in Hindsight” in between various live performances. They recorded the EP at Atrium Audio with Grant Mcfarland and Carson Slovak who most notably have produced for bands such as August Burns Red, Erra, and Polaris. After nearly a year of writing, recording, and releasing music videos for the 3 singles, Misery In Hindsight was released in June of 2023. In 2025 following the release of singles like “Harbinger” and “What Have We Become?” the band released their followup EP “A Sign of Life”. 2026 is promising to be an equally productive year for Gone Cold with the release of their new single and music video “Out of Time”.

Thin the Herd VA is an aggressive, heavy-hitting metalcore band , pushing the limits of the genre with a relentless sound and uncompromising intensity. Committed to innovation, they bring a high-quality, creative approach that challenges the scene.

Üga Büga is a heavy, riff driven band out of Charlottesville, Virginia delivering a powerful blend of crushing grooves, raw energy, and cinematic storytelling.

Drawing inspiration from Mastodon, Soundgarden, High on Fire, and Coheed and Cambria, the band combines aggressive instrumentation with immersive fantasy and comic inspired worldbuilding that gives their music a unique identity within the modern heavy scene.

Known for their intense live performances, Üga Büga has shared stages with Nothing More, Whitechapel, Nekrogoblikon, and CKY while performing more than 250 live shows over the past three years.

With a new record on the way and a growing East Coast touring presence, Üga Büga continues building momentum as one of the most distinctive heavy bands emerging from Virginia.

Formed in 2017, Cursor is a Northern Virginia alternative rock band creating expansive, emotionally charged music that balances crushing heaviness with atmosphere and melody. Their songs move between soaring choruses, immersive soundscapes, and quieter moments of vulnerability, drawing from alternative metal, post-hardcore, and atmospheric rock without fitting neatly into one box.

Age of Ruin hails from Washington DC, where political scum seeps into street sewers, drowning bottom feeders and corroding hope. in 1998, metalcore was forged here, as these pioneers rose from the catacombs to unleash music so molten the earth could no longer contain it. The AoRmy forged a new offering in 2025, known as Nothingman, sought out by vagrants whose poor taste includes In Flames, Killswitch Engage, and Soilwork.