Long Beach, California's Purging launched in 2025 as a blackened death metal act, combining the cold tremolo malice of black metal with death metal's brutality and low-register punishment. One of the newer entries in Southern California's perpetually active extreme underground.

New Jersey progressive death metal and metalcore hybrid formed in 2023, fusing the technical ambition of modern death metal with the structural hooks of metalcore in a combination that reflects the dense, polyglot heavy music scene of the mid-Atlantic.

Kingsport, Tennessee death metal act formed in 2024, representing the newer generation of Appalachian-region extreme metal with a straight-ahead, no-frills approach to the genre's foundational brutality.

Bay Area extreme metal mainstay since 2005, blending death metal, crossover thrash, and grindcore into a chaotic, low-fidelity assault that draws on the Northern California underground's long tradition of genre-defying extremity.

Portland, Oregon black/death/grind outfit formed in 2019, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's thriving extreme underground to deliver short, vicious assaults that refuse to settle neatly into any one extreme subgenre.

Milwaukee death metal and metalcore hybrid active since 2007, a long-running fixture of the Wisconsin underground combining the blunt-force trauma of death metal with metalcore's structural aggression.

Chicago death metal and grindcore band formed in 2015, operating within the city's deep-rooted tradition of extreme music and drawing on both genres' shared appetite for speed, brutality, and lyrical grotesquerie.

American brutal death metal and goregrind project formed in 2020, doubling down on the most viscerally extreme end of the death metal spectrum with hyper-blasted tempos, guttural vocal extremity, and gore-fixated imagery drawn from the goregrind tradition.

Cleveland's Putrefy deal in a corroded hybrid of black and death metal, leaning into atmosphere as much as brutality with a raw, caustic sound that reflects the rust-belt underground. Active since 2014, they occupy a grimy middle ground where blastbeats collide with dissonant, suffocating riffcraft.