American melodic death metal act formed in 2020, Stargrave crafts melodically-driven death metal that balances aggressive riffing with sweeping lead guitar work and dynamic song structures.

Melodic death metal act from Sacramento, California, formed in 2025, Stars in the Void brings a melodically charged approach to death metal drawing from the Gothenburg tradition.

San Antonio, Texas melodic death metal and metalcore band formed in 2016, Start a War fuses the melodic aggression of Swedish death metal with the breakdowns and intensity of modern metalcore.

San Jose, California black/death metal band formed in 2022, Starve the Leech blends the tremolo aggression of black metal with the heaviness and technique of death metal.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa death/thrash metal band formed in 2018, Starved delivers the crossover intensity of thrash with the heaviness and grim delivery of death metal in the American Midwest underground tradition.

Atlanta, Georgia death metal and deathcore band formed in 2024, Starved of Light combines the brutal riffing and technical heaviness of death metal with the structural breakdown elements of deathcore.

Greeley, Colorado symphonic melodic death metal band formed in 2019, Starwraith layers orchestral arrangements and cinematic keyboard textures over melodic death metal riffing and aggressive rhythmic attack.

Birmingham, Alabama death metal band active since 2005, State of Decay represents the deep South's underground death metal community with a straightforward, punishing approach to the genre.

Ruthless Slam / Brutal Death Metal / Hardcore from Houston.

Hayward, California metalcore and melodic death metal band formed in 2025, State of Reliance blends the hook-driven intensity of metalcore with the melodic riff vocabulary of death metal.

Seattle technical death metal band formed in 2014, pursuing the hyperkinetic complexity and surgical precision that defines the genre's most demanding practitioners on the West Coast.

Dallas blackened death/thrash fusing Bolt Thrower-style heaviness with vicious thrash and black metal.

New York crossover thrash band formed in 2019, fusing the speed and brutality of thrash metal with the raw energy and brevity of hardcore punk in the tradition of the East Coast crossover scene.

Stench Collector is a death metal band from Pawtucket, Rhode Island, formed in 2021. The band plays caustic, old-school-informed death metal, contributing to a regional underground scene with a characteristically blunt approach to the genre.

Stench Descent is a death metal/punk hybrid band from Salt Lake City, Utah, formed in 2019. They fuse the brutality of death metal with the raw energy of punk, reflecting a strain of the genre that prioritizes speed and aggression over technicality.