Nashville's Hornfucked arrived in 2025 as a new brutal death metal force, wasting no time in establishing a reputation for sheer, unadorned extremity. The name announces the intent perfectly.

Mankato, Minnesota's Human Bashing have been delivering brutal death metal with unambiguous intent since 2014. Technically punishing and lyrically unsparing, they lean into the genre's most extreme traditions with earnest conviction.

Pennsylvania's slam/brutal death/goregrind entity named after the world's largest mantis, matching that predator's lethality with a sound designed to maximize bodily damage per minute since 2023.

Tennessee's Impaled Divinity arrived in 2023 playing slam and brutal death metal in one of the genre's least expected zip codes — grotesque, low-tuned, and mercilessly heavy.

Las Vegas's Implements of Hell evolved from deathcore roots into full-on slam brutality, their music as grotesque and relentless as the city they call home — formed in 2019 and getting heavier ever since.

Colossal Funeral Doom Metal from Austin.

Mississippi project Jiangshi — named after the hopping Chinese vampiric reanimated corpse — drags brutal death and black metal through a peculiar, occult-adjacent lens, producing music that is as atmospheric as it is annihilating since 2017.

Rochester, New York's Kalibas have been a shape-shifting force in extreme metal since 2003, starting as a brutal death/grindcore act before incorporating black metal into their arsenal. Over twenty years they've grown into something genuinely hard to classify, which is precisely their appeal.

Oxnard, California's Kermz specialize in the most physically punishing end of the death metal spectrum — slam-heavy and brutal, with song structures built to maximize impact and bodily devastation since 2014.