Orange County's Excised play melodic death metal with a heavier, more visceral edge than the Gothenburg tradition that inspired them, active since 2015. Their Southern California roots push them toward a sunnier sense of melody even as the riffs stay caustic and the drumming punishing — melodic death metal for a scene that likes its music both catchy and brutal.

Exclusionist are a freshly formed death-thrash outfit from Salt Lake City, Utah, coming together in 2025 with a sound that fuses thrash metal's headlong momentum with death metal's darker tonal palette. The band is part of Utah's growing underground metal community, bringing a coiled, aggressive energy to one of the American West's more unlikely metal cities.

Detroit's Excremental Scaphism are a recent and uncompromising entry into the brutal death metal and grindcore space, forming in 2023 with a name that leaves no illusions about their musical intentions. They bring the grind and brutality traditions together under the shadow of the Motor City, a fitting birthplace for music built on industrial noise and extreme aggression.

Tacoma, Washington's Excrescence have been delivering brutal death metal since 2020, operating out of the shadow of Seattle's larger music industry but with a rawer, heavier edge befitting the port city's working-class character. Their sound is direct and crushing — low tunings, blast-heavy drumming, and guttural vocals that prioritize weight over technicality.

Las Vegas's Excretory Engorgement have been in the brutal death metal trenches since 2014, proving that the desert city harbors a dedicated underground beneath the glittering resort surface. Their extreme, gore-inflected brutality is part of a long tradition of American BDM bands that find ugliness as an aesthetic virtue, and they deliver it with committed intensity.

Houston, Texas's Execrable Divinity have been representing the brutal death metal underground since 2012, part of a city with a surprisingly deep history in extreme metal. Their sound is relentlessly heavy — dense, slam-adjacent brutality rooted in the American BDM tradition, with a name that signals their comfort operating at the genre's most extreme and blasphemous edges.

Devastating Brutal Death Metal from Colorado Springs, Colorado (early); Houston, Texas (later).

Santa Ana, California's Execute are a brand-new death metal outfit formed in 2024, emerging from the deep pool of extreme metal talent in the Orange County and greater Los Angeles area. Their 714-branded Bandcamp handle signals local pride and scene loyalty, placing them squarely in the dense Southern California underground.

Long Beach, New York's Execute Order 66 have been merging melodic death metal's twin-guitar melodicism with metalcore's breakdown-driven structure since 2011. Their name announces a certain irreverence, but their music is earnest in its hybridization of European melodeath aesthetics with the American metalcore tradition that shaped the Long Island scene.