Punishing Brutal Death Metal, Ambient / Experimental from San Antonio.

Pessimist is an American blackened death metal band originating in Baltimore, Maryland in 1989, delivering a relentless fusion of death metal aggression and black metal atmosphere across three studio albums. Signing to Lost Disciple Records in 1997, the band released Cult of the Initiated (1997) and Blood for the Gods (1999), both of which charted on CMJ's Loud Rock Top 40, followed by Slaughtering the Faithful (2001). The band has been intermittently active since and is signed to Season of Mist, with a new album titled Keys to the Underworld in development.

Minneapolis's Pestifere draws from the Twin Cities' rich extreme metal tradition, blending Scandinavian melodic death metal architecture with blasting black metal ferocity.

Emerging from Ocala, Florida in 2021, Pestiferous carries the torch of Florida's storied death metal lineage with a relentless and putrid ferocity that honors the state's legendary brutality.

Milwaukee's Phantasm conjures death metal from the frozen Midwest, channeling the bleak severity of Wisconsin winters into riffs that lurch and devour.

Los Angeles's Phantom Horde brings a sweeping melodic death metal vision to the sprawling city — hook-laden riffs and dual-guitar harmonies with a cinematic scope befitting the city of angels.

Boston's Phlegmesis arrived on the death metal scene in 2022 with guttural intent, delivering rotten old-school death metal from a city with a proud tradition of producing extreme extremity.

Boise's Pink Soapy Vomit launched in 2025 with a name designed to disturb and a sound to match — a corrosive blend of death and sludge metal that sounds exactly as pleasant as it should.

Blackened death metal horde featuring former members of Thornspawn, Hod, and Burial Shroud. Filthy, bestial sound in the vein of Blasphemy and Necrovore.