Kansas City's Cult of Orion occupy the crushing space where death metal, doom, and sludge converge, leaning into slow, monstrous riffs weighted with dread. The Missouri band works in the tradition of death/doom that prizes atmosphere and oppressive heaviness over technical display.

Seattle's Cult of Yog conjure Lovecraftian dread through venomous, bestial black/death metal rooted in the Pacific Northwest's tradition of cavernous, atmospheric extremity. Their self-titled 2021 EP announced a band channeling the darkness of Cascadia into riff-heavy, cosmically hostile metal.

York, Pennsylvania husband-and-wife duo Cultic fuse early death/doom, first-wave black metal, and punk into what they call dungeon doom — a battle-scarred sound decorated with dark fantasy themes, dungeon synth interludes, and martial industrial textures. Released via Eleventh Key Records, their 2025 album Lore is their most fully realized entry into this singular aesthetic.

Columbus, Ohio's Cultists work within the death/doom tradition, building heavy, suffocating compositions that balance the slow crawl of classic doom with the brutality of death metal. The Ohio band operates independently, adding to a Columbus extreme metal scene that has produced some of the most punishing underground acts in the Midwest.

New Orleans's Cultum Nocte apply the Crescent City's longstanding tradition of extreme, ritualistic metal to a black/death framework, producing music that carries the oppressive humidity and occult atmosphere of their surroundings. The Louisiana band operates as part of a local underground that has always thrived at metal's most uncompromising edges.

San Antonio technical death metal/deathcore. Precision brutality.

Dayton, Ohio's Cum Chalice drag death metal into the sludge pit, combining the genre's grotesque imagery with the tar-thick, slow-churning weight of sludge metal. The Ohio band operates in the tradition of the Southwest Ohio extreme underground that has historically favored brutality over accessibility.

Lakeland, Florida's Cum Soaked Corpses Leaking Rectal Discharge are a two-piece goregrind duo who weaponize slamming rhythms, guttural extremity, and intentional provocation into brief, relentless bursts of brutal death metal noise. Self-described as stoned, drunk scumbags, they've released a steady stream of material including the 2023 full-length Indica Cocaine.

Nashville's Cumshot Wound are a grindy noise-worship unit who pack visceral, relentless riffs and raw, socio-political lyrical content into short, grinding blasts that blur the lines between death metal, grindcore, and metalcore. Formed in 2024 and signed to Scum City Entertainment, they quickly became one of Tennessee's most confrontational new acts.