Los Angeles death metal project Obsidian Hooves emerged in 2020 with a sound that's dense, occult-tinged, and built around suffocating low-end weight. They draw from the genre's most primitive instincts while maintaining a distinctly L.A. sense of menace.

Virginia's Obsidian Sorrow launched in 2024 as a death/thrash project with an appetite for controlled chaos — punishing tempos, riff-forward aggression, and a clear reverence for the genre's most ferocious roots. Fresh out of the Suffolk underground with something to prove.

Ruthless Melodic Death Metal from Fort Worth.

New Jersey's Ocean of Illusions pull deathcore's metallic breakdown energy into genuine death metal territory, building a sound that hits with weight and purpose rather than spectacle. Formed in 2015, they've been quietly hardening their edge ever since.

Houston progressive doom/death metal with powerful clean vocals. Emotionally devastating heaviness.

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Lafayette's Omega Faction bring Louisiana death metal aggression with the bayou-fueled intensity that distinguishes the region's extreme music from anywhere else in the country. Formed in 2018, they've carved out a corner of the South's underground with uncompromising heaviness.

San Francisco's Ominous Ruin deal in technical brutal death metal with a surgical precision that makes their most devastating passages feel almost architectural. Since 2015, they've stood as one of the Bay Area's sharpest exponents of technically demanding extremity.

Los Angeles death/thrash unit Omnicide carve through breakneck riff structures with a ferocity that owes equal debt to early Morbid Angel and the Bay Area thrash tradition. Since forming in 2012 they have kept their attack tight, mean, and relentlessly forward-moving.