Based in Kensington, Maryland, this Mourning have been writing heavy, deliberate doom metal since 2008, drawing on the genre's most crushing and melancholic traditions with the patience of a band that knows the power of restraint.

A New Jersey black/death metal act, this Mourning fuse the cold, tremolo-drenched attack of black metal with death metal's visceral heaviness, forging a harsh and unyielding sound since 2008.

Monolithic Doom Metal from Houston.

Operating out of the Omaha, Nebraska area, Mourning Veil combine the ferocity of death metal with black metal's corrosive atmosphere, forging a death/black hybrid that is both technically driven and darkly expressive.

Lansing, Michigan's Mourning Wolf have been merging melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with black metal's bleak, tremolo-driven intensity since 2013, crafting a hybrid sound rooted in the northern Midwest underground.

Fairfax, Virginia's Mournspire traffic in death/doom of the heavy and suffocating variety, blending the genre's slow, crushing tempos with death metal's brutal downtuned attack in a sound that has been taking shape since 2017.

Henderson, Illinois death metal act Mouth of Sauron combine technical brutality with relentless aggression, drawing on both the technical and brutal death metal traditions to deliver a sound that is punishing in both complexity and raw force.

Los Angeles technical deathcore act Mouth of the Serpent have been pushing the boundaries of extremity since 2010, bringing technical death metal's surgical precision to deathcore's brutal compositional architecture within the sprawling LA underground.

Hailing from Calumet City, Illinois, Moving Thru Black formed in 2022 and deal in straightforward, no-frills death metal that leans into the gritty industrial edge of the south Chicago suburbs.

Concord, California's Mox Morbus have been building their Bay Area death metal sound since 2012, carrying forward the region's long tradition of technically inclined, riff-forward brutality with a relentless and uncompromising approach.

Originating in Eureka, California, Mr. Bungle are among the most unpredictable acts in metal history, weaving death metal, thrash, avant-garde composition, and experimental noise into a singular and frequently disorienting sonic vision that refuses any single genre label.

Cleveland, Ohio's Muciferous are a 2024 goregrind and death metal project that leans hard into biological horror, piling up suffocating riffs and blastbeats in the tradition of the most viscerally repulsive extreme metal the underground has to offer.

Albany, New York's Mucopus are one of the more enduring acts in brutal death metal and grindcore, combining sub-basement tuned brutality with grind's sheer velocity since 1998 in a relentless assault that has defined their city's extreme underground presence.

A Pennsylvania death metal outfit formed in 2022, Mucous waste no time on aesthetics — their approach is direct and grimy, delivering the kind of unpolished, riff-dense death metal that sounds like it came up through the sewers of the state's underground scene.

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.