Sacramento's Mucus Membrane have been inflicting their brand of grotesque death metal on California's underground since 2019, combining the clinical gore of OSDM with the savagery of the West Coast scene to produce something genuinely nauseating in the best possible way.

Minneapolis death metal outfit formed in 2019, Mudlung digs into the filthy, mid-paced end of the genre with a sound that evokes the city's underground club circuit more than any polished studio ideal.

Formed in Seattle in 2023, Mudslide channels the Pacific Northwest's hard rock heritage into aggressive thrash metal, bridging the gap between driving riff-rock and the sharper attack of the genre's classic era.

A San Francisco death-doom project born in 2025, Mudslinger buries melody beneath layers of grinding low-end, pairing cavernous death metal brutality with the suffocating crawl of doom.

Chicago death metal act MudTomb emerged in 2023 with a sound as uncompromising as its name suggests — dense, putrid, and rooted in the old-school underground ethos that the city's scene has quietly nurtured for decades.

Camas, Washington's Muerte has spent over a decade weaving melodic death metal hooks into metalcore aggression, delivering a sound that carries genuine heaviness without sacrificing songwriting craft.

Las Vegas black/death metal act with roots stretching back to 2007, Muggle Death Camp brings a caustic, no-frills extremity to the desert city's metal underground, blending raw black metal savagery with death metal's structural brutality.

Blackened death metal released through Redefining Darkness Records. Debut EP 'Misery of One' dropped in 2022.

Cleveland death metal band Mulciber emerged in 2022 with a straight-ahead brutality that fits the Rust Belt city's no-nonsense approach to extreme metal, emphasizing punishing riffs over ornamentation.