Tucson's Genocaust deliver brutal death metal from the Sonoran Desert with a sound as arid and punishing as the landscape since 2012. Low-tuned, heavy, and unrelenting — desert brutality at its most direct.

Flint, Michigan — a city with no shortage of hard edges — gave rise to this Genocide, a band that fuses thrash velocity with death metal's pulverizing low end. The combination is as unforgiving as you'd expect from the city's industrial decay.

Washington state's Genocide Pact is a death metal band that hits with the weight of collapsing infrastructure — slow enough to crush, fast enough to disorient. Since 2013, they've built a reputation for relentless, cavern-heavy brutality.

Brand new to the Los Angeles scene as of 2025, Genocidist wastes no time merging death metal's gore-soaked riffs with grindcore's frantic, sub-minute assault. Expect short songs, maximum violence, and zero filler.

Lansing, Michigan's Genocya has been weaving black and death metal together since 2011, crafting a sound that swings between icy tremolo passages and down-tuned, guttural extremity. They occupy that punishing middle ground where both genres drag each other deeper into the dark.

Hailing from Fulton, Missouri, Gerasene arrived in 2024 with a blackened melodic death metal sound that balances icy ferocity with sweeping, melodic grandeur. The name references the biblical demonic — an apt metaphor for music this possessed.

North Carolina's Germanic Iron traffics in the harsh, martial intersection of black and death metal, producing music that sounds like a siege engine wrapped in frost. They've been waging sonic warfare since 2016.

Named for a tiny Upper Peninsula town, Lansing's Germfask is a death metal and noise outfit that drags Michigan's industrial decay into the pit, layering corrosive texture over already brutal riffs. They've been corroding eardrums since 2020.

Bay Area band Geryon blends melodic death metal's emotive sweep with metalcore's rhythmic punch, crafting songs that hit hard while still leaving room for melody. They've been honing their hybrid sound in California since 2013.