Outright Resistance is a heavy metal quintet from rural Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. The group works in heavy metal with thrash, death and groove influences, and it combines hard-hitting riffs, groove and melody with a direct, plainspoken style.

The band cites Machine Head, Chimaira and Lamb of God among its influences. It presents itself as a collaboration of five individual playing styles and abilities, built around aggressive drums, loud guitars, heavy bass and screamed vocals.

Outright Resistance positions itself against fashion-led ideas in metal and draws on an older, more direct approach to the genre while aiming to add its own perspective to it.