Call of the Void formed in Denver, Colorado around 2010, formerly operating as Ironhorse, and quickly established themselves as one of the heaviest acts in the American underground by blending grindcore blast beats with crust punk grit and sludge metal weight. Signed to Relapse Records, the band released Dragged Down a Dead End Path (2013), Ageless (2015), and Buried in Light (2019). Their approach draws equally from 1980s hardcore aggression and the nihilistic density of doom.

New Jersey black metal and crust outfit emerging from Clementon in 2018, fusing the raw aggression of crust punk with the cold savagery of black metal.

Eau Claire's Caveat fuse crust punk's raw, d-beat urgency with sludge metal's tar-thick low end, resulting in a grinding, oppressive sound that moves between crusty blasts and suffocating slow-downs.

Dayton's Cheap Gas smashes black metal, crust punk, and grindcore into a filthy, high-speed collision that prioritizes ferocity and brevity above all else. Their sound is as blunt and unrefined as the industrial Midwestern city they come from.

Portland, Maine band Chäpels combine the aggression of crust punk with the dragging weight of sludge metal, creating rough-edged, anarchic noise that hits hard and moves fast. Their sound is raw and confrontational, indebted to both Discharge and Eyehategod.

Boston's Coagula filter Swedish death metal's d-beat sewer grime through a crust punk framework that nods to Asphyx and Autopsy, producing a filthy, old-school death metal attack. Their EPs Vile Sacrament and Hellish Inferno solidify them as one of the Northeast's best purveyors of Entombed-worship death metal.

Cincinnati, Ohio crust-punk and death metal band Coelacanth have been grinding out ferocious, politically charged metal since the early 1990s, earning a cult following in the American underground. Their sound fuses the rawness of crust with the brutality of early death metal.

Newbury Park, California's Collapse operates in the scrappy Southern California crossover tradition — thrash riffing, crust punk rawness, and hardcore urgency colliding in a sound built for back-alley shows and sweaty basements.

Boston's Combat Delta stitch together crust punk grime, death-doom misery, and grinding heaviness into a filthy, confrontational sound. They occupy the intersection of punk fury and extreme metal despair.