Sacramento's Elysia entered the deathcore space in 2024 with the genre's characteristic wall-of-sound ferocity, bridging death metal's technical severity with the breakdown-centric architecture that drives the style.

New Mexico's Emaciated have been working death metal's most uncompromising terrain since 2022 — lean, ugly, and intentional, with a name that telegraphs exactly where the sound lives.

Arizona's Emaciated Amalgamation fuse brutal death metal and grindcore into something even more compressed and violent than either genre alone, packing maximum destruction into the shortest possible runtime.

Battle Creek death metal newcomers Emaciated Remains arrived in 2025 with an uncompromising focus on putrefaction and decay. Raw and unapologetic, they carry the old-school spirit of Midwestern death into modern territory.

Madison's Embalm traffic in the kind of murky, cadaver-cold death metal that feels like it was excavated rather than recorded. Since 2018 they've kept the Wisconsin underground well-supplied with putrid, methodical riffs.

Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.

Cleveland's Embalmer carry on with the straightforward death metal tradition that has always suited Ohio's no-frills underground. Since 2016, they've delivered unadorned, morgue-scented brutality without pretense.

Oakland's Embers fuse black metal's icy atmosphere with doom's crushing weight and crust punk's streetwise grit, building something uniquely Bay Area in its bleakness. Active since 2009, they've carved out a space where political urgency and sonic desolation intersect.

Sacramento's Emberthrone fuse deathcore's breakdown architecture with death metal's compositional aggression, keeping both sides of the equation bone-heavy. Formed in 2022, they represent the current California wave pushing the genre's technical and sonic boundaries.