Providence's Hate Lord emerged in 2023 blending the structural weight of deathcore with death metal's more traditional brutality. Rhode Island's small but fierce extreme scene is well-served by their dense, suffocating sound.

Charleston's Hate Machine have been producing death metal out of the South Carolina Lowcountry since 2021, a region not typically on extreme metal's radar — making their presence there all the more notable. Raw and unpolished in the best tradition of underground death.

New Orleans's Hate Seed arrived in 2019 carrying death metal into a city already thick with extreme music traditions. The NOLA atmosphere lends the music a murky, humid quality — death metal soaked in bayou air.

Akron's Hate Theory have been working the fertile middle ground between death metal and metalcore since 2017, building a sound with the brutality of the former and the structural hooks of the latter. Ohio's industrial heritage informs their heavy, purposeful approach.

Detroit's Hate Unbound pull from death, thrash, and groove metal simultaneously since 2015, creating a thick, multi-layered attack built for the floor of a club. The Motor City's working-class aggression runs through every downpicked riff.

Baltimore's Hatebeak hold a singular place in underground metal history: their vocalist is a Congo African grey parrot named Waldo, whose screeching squawks front a grinding death metal assault. Since reforming their activity around 2019, they remain one of extreme metal's most genuinely surreal propositions.

Sterling, Virginia's Hatefuck have been grinding out their caustic blend of brutal death and grindcore since 2013, delivering short, unrelenting volleys of noise and violence with no regard for subtlety or mercy.

Madison, Wisconsin's Hatefuel run on pure adrenaline and aggression, channeling the classic thrash tradition into a sound built for whiplash and fist-pumping fury since 2019.

Raleigh's Hateful Transgression drag the blackened and the brutal into the same pit, fusing the ice-cold atmospherics of black metal with the punishing low-end density of brutal death into something genuinely venomous.

Out of De Pere, Wisconsin, Hatekill treat death metal and grindcore as interchangeable weapons, blasting through material with the kind of blunt efficiency that leaves little room for breath or reflection.

Chicago's Hatemonger arrived in 2021 with a death metal sound rooted in brutality and forward momentum, adding another sharp-edged entry to the city's already fearsome extreme metal lineage.

Fort Lauderdale veterans HatePlow have been a fixture of Florida's death metal scene since 1998, carrying the legacy of the state's most uncompromising sonic tradition through decades of punishing output.

Hattiesburg's Hateslave mangle death metal, thrash, and punk into a gritty, aggressive hybrid that sounds like Mississippi resentment distilled into riffs — raw, confrontational, and unbothered since 2022.

New Jersey's Hath construct progressive blackened death metal with uncommon depth and ambition, weaving labyrinthine song structures through blasts of ferocity and passages of unsettling atmosphere.

Rumford, Maine's Hatred Alive prove that extreme metal thrives even in the most isolated corners of New England, bringing death metal conviction to a part of the country not typically associated with the genre.