A Maine-based act weaving together death metal brutality, melodic death metal leads, and thrash aggression, B-Rex-Tron has been active since 2021 and represents the cross-genre sensibility of the contemporary underground.

South Carolina black metal act Baasthyrian was active in the early 2010s, releasing a self-titled EP and the single Womb Evacuation before going silent — a brief but uncompromising entry in the region's underground black metal history.

St. Louis death metal band Babdeh has been active since 2020, representing the Midwest's understated but persistent underground death metal scene with a name drawn from Akkadian mythology.

Nevada death metal act Baby Autopsy leans into the deliberately confrontational naming tradition of the genre, an active project since 2022 in the sparse but determined underground metal community of the desert Southwest.

Oakland death metal band Back from Death was active from 2015 before going on hold, a Bay Area project operating within the West Coast's tradition of raw, unadorned death metal.

Charlotte, North Carolina act that merged death metal and thrash metal during their run from 2014 until splitting up, part of the Carolinas' growing extreme metal underground.

Santa Clarita, California death metal and grindcore band that has been grinding since 2014, adding to the San Fernando Valley's underground extreme metal presence.

New Jersey death metal outfit featuring former members of brutal death metal band Digested Flesh, releasing their debut Gateway to Pestilence in November 2013.

Thrash metal band from Covington, Georgia with tracks including King KroK and Black Infusion, delivering no-frills thrash to the Southern underground.

Boston death metal outfit formed in 2015 by members of thrash band Razormaze and brutal death outfit Scattered Remnants, drawing on the technical influence of Gorguts and Carcass. Their 2023 full-length Anthropogenic Ruin builds on the angular dissonance introduced on their 2016 debut EP Agnosia of Omens.

Brooklyn death metal and cybergrind project formed in 2022, combining extreme metal aggression with digital noise textures across releases including The Demo and the full-length Unborn 2 Die.

Massachusetts experimental death metal project formed in 2019, pushing the genre's structural limits through unconventional song construction and disorienting tonal choices.

Albuquerque death metal, grindcore, and powerviolence band formed in 2020, named after the HTTP 502 error code and releasing brutal short-form material from the New Mexico underground.

Philadelphia melodic death metal and metalcore act blending Scandinavian-influenced melodeath heaviness with metalcore structure. Active in the Pennsylvania underground since the early 2020s.

Seattle progressive thrash and death metal band pushing the genre's technical boundaries with dynamic shifts and complex arrangements since their formation in the mid-2010s.