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Long Beach, MS · 2015–present · active
Long Beach, Mississippi's Skulldozer are an entirely separate outfit sharing a name with their Oregon counterparts, playing death metal out of the Gulf Coast state's small but determined underground scene since 2015.
Virginia Beach, VA · 2017–present · active
Virginia Beach's Skulless formed in 2017 at the edge of death metal and grindcore, favoring the kind of brutal, compacted brutality that drops all pretense and hammers straight through — short songs, maximum punishment, East Coast coastal aggression.
Salt Lake City, UT · 2015–present · active
Salt Lake City death metal act Skullfuck formed in 2015 with a deliberately abrasive name that signals their allegiance to extreme metal's most uncompromising corner — straightforward death metal delivered without concession to subtlety.
NJ · 2025–present · active
New Jersey's Skullmug arrived in 2025 fusing groove metal's loping, syncopated heaviness with death metal's abrasive low-end punishment. A brand-new act, they bring a churn-and-pummel sensibility rooted in the East Coast's long tradition of hard-hitting underground metal.
Bethany, OK · 2006–present · active
Active since 2006 out of Bethany, Oklahoma, Skullpl8 have spent nearly two decades refining a death/thrash hybrid that values punishment over polish. Operating under the Horn Cloud Bandcamp banner, they represent the stubborn, self-sufficient streak of the Great Plains underground.
Brooklyn, New York City, NY · 2012–present · active
Brooklyn's Skullshitter have been grinding since 2012, blending grindcore's short-fuse violence with death metal's guttural density into a distinctly New York City-styled assault. Their Bandcamp output reflects a band committed to brevity and brutality in equal measure.
Los Angeles, CA · 2018–present · active
Los Angeles grind-death outfit Skullsmasher formed in 2018, bringing a no-frills collision of death metal heaviness and grindcore speed to the Southern California underground. The band traffics in short, explosive material designed to overload the senses rather than reward patience.
NY · 2021–present · active
New York's SkullSplitter formed in 2021 and plays a crossover-adjacent style of death/thrash metal that leans into brute forward momentum. Though their city information is unspecified, their Bandcamp presence marks them as part of the current New York underground's renewed appetite for riff-forward extremity.
· 2019–present · active
Skulltribe is a U.S.-based avant-garde entity born in 2019 that pushes death and black metal into dissonant, structurally unpredictable territory. Their approach refuses easy categorization, treating extreme metal as raw material to be deconstructed and reassembled in strange configurations.

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