Tampa's O.D.D. drags death metal through the muck of thrash, delivering punishing riffs with the stripped-down ferocity of the Florida underground. Since 2016, they've kept the spirit of raw, no-frills extremity alive in a city built on the genre's legacy.

Features Imprecation's Danny Hiller on guitar. 'Summary Execution at Dawn' (2019) on Dark Descent is 34 minutes of pure savagery.

Bridgeport's Oath to Order merge the sledgehammer breakdowns of deathcore with genuine death metal menace, forging a sound that's as heavy as it is precise. Their metalcore instincts keep the songs tight even when the brutality threatens to swallow everything whole.

Out of the Oklahoma City underground since 2009, Obliteration deal in death metal that's direct, punishing, and built to last. No frills, no gimmicks — just riffs and the relentless forward motion of a band that knows exactly what the genre demands.

Savage Melodic Black / Death Metal / Metalcore from Fort Worth.

Dallas death metal act Oblivious Obscurity carve through the Texas underground with a sound that's murky, suffocating, and relentlessly heavy. Since 2019 they've been stacking riffs that owe as much to the genre's filthiest roots as to the sprawling brutality of the Lone Star scene.

Indianapolis's Obscene have been shaping Indiana's death metal identity since 2012, wielding riffs that are dense, dissonant, and uncompromisingly heavy. Their approach favors atmosphere forged through weight rather than speed, letting the darkness build and accumulate.

From Saratoga Springs, Obscene Execration bring death metal ugliness to upstate New York with the kind of unvarnished savagery that feels genuinely threatening. Formed in 2015, they channel pure genre nihilism with no detours and no apologies.

Denver's Obscene Worship arrived in 2022 with a death metal sound steeped in ritualistic dread — slow-burning and putrid, the kind that feels like an invocation rather than a performance. Mile High city heaviness, stripped to its most rotten bones.