Los Angeles black/death act Fallen Soul have been operating in the city's sprawling underground since 2017, where the sheer size of the scene lets extreme metal acts pursue uncompromising sounds without chasing commercial viability. Their dual-genre identity brings both frost and brutality to a city not typically associated with either.

Leesburg, Virginia's Fallen Void have been plying straight-ahead death metal since 2020 in the Northern Virginia suburbs, a region whose proximity to Washington, D.C. has fed a durable underground metal culture. Their name implies an abyss that doesn't resolve — just opens wider the further in you go.

Chico, California's Fallon bring death/thrash hostility from a small Northern California college town that has quietly produced more serious heavy music than its size might suggest, formed in 2023. Raw, fast, and riff-forward, their approach has the hungry urgency of a young band with something to prove.

New York's Fallout blends the ferocity of death metal with the kinetic energy of thrash, formed in 2018. The combination makes for a sound that's both technically aggressive and viscerally propulsive.

One of the more ambitious acts to emerge from the technical death metal world, Fallujah started as a deathcore band before evolving into something far more expansive — layering atmospheric textures and progressive structures over punishing heaviness. Based in Nashville, they've pushed the genre's boundaries since 2016 without abandoning its brutality.

Louisville's False takes the collision of death metal, thrash, and hardcore seriously, forging something rawer and more unpredictable than any single genre label can contain. Since 2013, they've been a fixture of the Kentucky underground.

Blacksburg, Virginia's False Hope channels the precision and punishment of technical death metal into songs that reward close listening. Since forming in 2016, they've focused on the surgical end of extreme music.

Greensboro's False Prophet fuse thrash and death metal into something vicious and direct, formed in 2023 and hitting the ground running. The North Carolina scene has been producing hungry acts lately, and this band fits the mold.

Des Moines death metal newcomers False Providence formed in 2024, bringing a fresh voice to the Iowa extreme scene. Their name hints at a certain nihilistic worldview, and their death metal delivers on that promise.

Oregon's Falxifer is a fresh 2025 act pushing brutal death metal and deathcore into each other with ruthless efficiency. The name itself — Latin for 'sickle-bearer' — points to a sound that has no interest in subtlety.

Louisiana's Fane operates somewhere in the murky intersection of black metal, death, sludge, and hardcore — a deliberately unclean combination that suits the state's swampy extremity. Formed in 2017, their sound resists easy classification.

New Jersey's FangTooth has been a death metal presence since 2011, doing the work without fuss or genre-blending complications. The name promises something with bite, and the band delivers accordingly.

Austin's Fantasm brings death metal to a city better known for its eclectic rock scenes, formed in 2023. They represent a strand of Texas extreme music that's stubbornly committed to the genre's most uncompromising end.

A fresh death-grind project out of Middletown, Delaware, Farm Machinery emerged in 2025 with the blunt, industrial violence the name implies. Their sound grinds genre boundaries down to raw material — equal parts gore-flecked death metal and punishing grindcore.

Ruthless Folk / Melodic Death Metal from Plano.