Punishing Brutal Death Metal from Comanche.

Nashville death metal act Mortius, active since 2018, represent the Tennessee capital's underground heavy music community with a direct, meat-and-bones approach to the genre that favors crushing riffs and guttural intensity.

Seattle's Morto-Naught, formed in 2021, push blackened death metal into unconventional territory through experimental composition and unorthodox structures, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's tradition of avant-garde extremity to carve out genuinely strange sonic ground.

Baltimore's Mortuaria, formed in 2025, fuse death metal's crushing density with grindcore's explosive brevity, emerging from Maryland's storied extreme metal underground with a debut that wastes no time on subtlety.

Razor-sharp Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Kingston, Pennsylvania's Mortuary have ground out death metal in the Northeast underground since 2021, carrying the working-class heaviness of the Wyoming Valley into brutally direct extreme metal.

Fort Worth's Mortuary, formed in 2021, combine death and thrash metal in the Texas tradition of unsparing heaviness, blending the Metroplex's deep-rooted metal scene with a crossover attack that hits hard from both angles.

Savage Death Metal from San Antonio.

Ohio brutal death metal outfit Mortuary Ghoul, active since 2020, specialize in the genre's most pulverizing and grotesque end — slamming rhythms, guttural vocals, and a relentless devotion to brutality from deep in the Midwest underground.