Triangulations is an avant-garde black/death metal project from Midland, Michigan, formed in 2018, pushing extreme metal into unconventional compositional territory with dissonant, boundary-defying arrangements.

Avant-garde technical death metal band from Rancho Cucamonga, California, formed in 2019, pushing the boundaries of the genre with unconventional song structures and psychedelic sonic experimentation layered over complex death metal riffing.

Cleveland's UvU are a genuinely strange proposition: an avant-garde, post-metal act that refuses to play by genre rules since their 2018 formation, blending heavy metal weight with art-damaged experimentation in ways that mark them as one of the more intellectually curious bands in the Ohio metal underground. The playful name belies the music's considerable ambition.

Formed in Los Angeles in 2019, Vin push death metal into dissonant, experimental territory — their avant-garde approach fragments conventional song structure in favor of something more unsettling and abstract. The band treats extreme metal as a malleable medium, bending its grammar until the familiar becomes genuinely strange.

Los Angeles avant-garde black metal duo formed in 2017, notable for replacing conventional guitar with grand piano as the primary instrument alongside drums and shrieked vocals. The result is a genuinely strange, dissonant take on black metal that sounds like nothing else in the California underground.