Sioux City, Iowa's Morthereon blend melodic death metal's hook-driven intensity with the mid-paced heaviness of groove metal, carving a distinctive space for themselves in the Midwestern extreme underground since 2017.

Schererville, Indiana's Morthona have been mixing death and thrash metal since 2016, rooted in the classic crossover between the two genres that defined much of the late-1980s underground.

Minneapolis death metal band Mortic formed in 2017, adding to Minnesota's long tradition of underground extreme metal with a focused, no-frills approach to the genre's core tenets.

Minneapolis's Morticia formed in 2022 and blend heavy metal's melodic sensibility with deathrock's gothic atmosphere, occupying a moody, darkly theatrical corner of the Twin Cities heavy music scene.

Las Vegas's Mortician are a long-running brutal death metal and grindcore outfit active since 2002, known for machine-gun drumming, pulverizing down-tuned guitars, and horror-obsessed lyrical themes drawn from cult films and splatter fiction.

Clifton Park, New York death metal act Morticide formed in 2022, contributing to upstate New York's underground extreme metal community with direct, no-frills death metal aggression.

A death metal outfit from Queens, New York City, formed in 2021, Mortiferoth channels the borough's dense urban grimness into punishing, no-frills extreme metal with a raw, street-level aggression.

Hailing from Olympia, Washington, Mortiferum deal in a suffocating blend of death and doom metal built on cavernous low-end, glacially slow passages, and sepulchral atmosphere — one of the Pacific Northwest's most oppressive acts since their 2017 formation.

Connecticut's Mortifica, active since 2012 out of Meriden, wield technical death metal with precision and brutality, weaving intricate fretwork and volatile time signatures through relentless death metal heaviness.

Formed in 2012 in Oxnard, California, Mortificado operate at the crossroads of black and death metal, fusing the venomous spite of black metal aesthetics with death metal's pulverizing low-end attack.

Out of Normal, Illinois, Mortificare have been delivering straightforward, uncompromising death metal since 2012 — a Midwest act rooted in the tradition of gut-punch riffing and guttural vocals without genre embellishment.

Detroit's Mortification, formed in 2003, fuse death and thrash metal in the gritty tradition of the Motor City's blue-collar heavy music scene, combining thrash's velocity and riff aggression with death metal's punishing vocal and rhythmic brutality.

Relentless Black Metal from San Antonio.

Based in Rancho Palos Verdes, California and active since 2022, this incarnation of Mortified pursues straight-ahead death metal rooted in the Southern California tradition of punishing extremity and underground dedication.

Punishing Brutal Death Metal from Comanche.