Green Bay thrash metal project from the Wisconsin underground.

Danville, California deathcore and grindcore pioneers with roots stretching back to 1998. Six releases across a decade make them one of the earliest American deathcore acts, predating the genre's mainstream breakthrough from the East Bay suburbs.

Houston death metal project exploring temporal themes since 2023. Their releases — titled with timestamps like 81:03 and 23:03 — suggest a conceptual framework beneath the brutality, freezing the tropical Houston heat into something glacial and unforgiving.

Raleigh/Cary, North Carolina death metal and progressive project named after the second ring of the ninth circle of Hell in Dante's Inferno. Their 2018 debut Horrors channels literary horror through technically accomplished extreme metal from the Research Triangle.

Los Angeles symphonic metal project crafting cinematic heavy music since 2020. Their singles Illusion and Tales Untold pair orchestral grandeur with metal power, channeling Hollywood's epic sensibility into something genuinely heavy.

Pinellas County, Florida death metal project with an astounding eleven releases since 2022. The Aelvica series and subsequent albums demonstrate a creative output that borders on obsessive, building an entire mythology of biblical destruction from the Tampa Bay area's legendary extreme metal scene.

Denver death metal project whose 2021 EP Dissection of the Abhorrent delivers clinical brutality from Colorado's growing extreme underground. The title promises anatomical precision in its violence, and the music follows through.

Olympia, Washington death/thrash project named after humanity's geological era of environmental impact. Their 2016 EP Bitter Beginnings channels eco-anxiety through aggressive metal from the Pacific Northwest capital.

Montague, Massachusetts death metal project with five releases since 2019, including the unflinching Abuse of a Corpse and the more literary Death Fugue. Prolific and brutal, channeling the Pioneer Valley's isolated rural atmosphere into visceral extremity.