MoonGod is a Union, New Jersey project formed in 2013 that straddles black metal, death metal, and deathcore — a combination that yields dense, heavy music with extremity coming from multiple directions simultaneously. The deathcore element brings a breakdown-ready low-end to what would otherwise be a straightforward blackened death framework.

A progressive death metal band from Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, formed in 2025, merging the technical complexity of prog with death metal's crushing weight in what appears to be an early but ambitious entry into the scene.

Atlanta's Moonshield have been crafting melodic death metal since 2018, bringing the twin-guitar harmonics and aggressive forward momentum of the Scandinavian MDM tradition to the American South.

A Chicago death metal act founded in 2013, Moral Decay pursue the genre's classic brutal sensibility in a city with a deep underground metal tradition, prioritizing heaviness and aggression over technical flash.

New Bedford, Massachusetts's Moral Decay blend death metal's gravity with grindcore's blunt-force speed and brevity, a combination that's been a fixture of the New England underground since their 2013 formation.

Nashville's Moral Decay pull death metal, thrash, and punk into the same grimy room — a hard-charging collision that's been a staple of the city's underground since 2013, channeling aggression across genre lines.

Denver's Moral Deceit combine death metal's crushing brutality with grindcore's breakneck brevity, operating in the Mile High City's underground since 2013 with a blunt, pulverizing approach to extreme music.

Chicago's Moral Void have been straddling black metal and crust punk since 2013, binding the nihilistic fury of both genres into a raw, abrasive sound that thrives in the city's dense and combative underground.

Tampa's Morbid Angel are one of the founding acts of American death metal, their 1989 debut helping define the genre's technical brutality and occult worldview — records like Altars of Madness and Blessed Are the Sick remain touchstones of the form.