Birmingham, Alabama act Seraphic Entombment have been crafting suffocating death-doom since 2019, drawing on the genre's most crushing traditions — glacial tempos, cavernous low-end, and an oppressive atmosphere that earns the city's heavy reputation.

Hayward, California's Seraphim Defloration deal in the guttural end of brutal death metal, built on punishing rhythms, gurgural vocals, and the kind of relentless sonic violence that has defined the Bay Area's underground extreme metal scene since the band's 2015 formation.

A fresh arrival out of Seattle, Seraphlesh formed in 2025 blending melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the raw aggression of straight-ahead death metal — one of the Pacific Northwest's newest entries in the melodeath tradition.

Denver's Seren occupy an ambitious crossroads of progressive black and death metal with metalcore influences, weaving volatile extremity and structural complexity into a sound that has distinguished the band in Colorado's underground since 2017.

Boston's Serpent of Gnosis grind and bludgeon at the intersection of death metal and grindcore, channeling frenzied blastbeats and dense riff violence into tightly wound bursts of extremity since forming in 2019.

Kansas City's Serpent Sceptre arrived in 2024 with a blackened death metal approach, combining the ferocity of death metal with the cold, malevolent atmosphere of black metal in a city with a quietly growing extreme metal underground.

Los Angeles death/thrash outfit Serpentance formed in 2019 and channel the old-school ferocity of both genres — tightly wound riffs, barked vocals, and the kind of no-frills brutality that keeps the Southern California underground honest.

Out of Arbuckle in rural Northern California, Serpentera have been delivering death/thrash metal since 2018 — a two-genre hybrid that puts the pedal down on aggression and channels the raw energy of both traditions into a compact, punishing sound.

Spokane, Washington's Serpentspire have been one of the Pacific Northwest's most technically demanding death metal outfits since 2016, building elaborate, riff-dense compositions that push technical death metal into labyrinthine territory.

Houston death metal act Serpientes de Fuego have been bringing the fire since 2018, rooted in the Lone Star State's storied brutal underground and delivering uncompromising, riff-driven death metal out of one of Texas's most historically fertile metal cities.

A young technical death metal outfit from Huntsville, Alabama, Serratia formed in 2024 and immediately set their sights on clinical precision and surgical riff construction. Their name — borrowed from the rod-shaped bacterium — signals an interest in the microscopic and malignant, matching a sound built on rapid-fire fretwork and punishing rhythmic density.

Hailing from Unionville, Florida, Serration have been cultivating a raw and uncompromising strain of death metal since 2018, drawing on the punishing aesthetic of the Florida tradition while carving their own jagged edge. Their approach favors heaviness over technicality, leaning into grinding riffs and brutal rhythmic punishment.

Richmond, Virginia's Serum have been a fixture of that city's underground death metal scene since 2008, channeling the grim and gritty energy that Richmond's heavy music community is known for. Their sound is rooted in old-school death metal values — thick, downtuned riffs, menacing vocals, and a no-frills devotion to the form.

Crushing Grindcore / Death Metal from Austin, Texas (early); Portland, Oregon (later).

Los Angeles-based Servile Conceptions blend blackened ferocity with death metal's brutality, threading cold, dissonant tremolo lines through a foundation of aggressive, mid-paced heaviness. Active since 2013, they occupy the dark and confrontational space where LA's underground extreme metal scene intersects with the philosophical blackness of the genre's European roots.