Staten Island's Torturous Inception specialize in the technical and brutal end of death metal, constructing dense arrangements of rapid-fire riffing and inhuman percussive precision rooted in New York City's historically brutal death metal underground.

Salem, Oregon's Total Darkness sink into the murk of death/doom metal, dragging riffs through oppressive tempos and graveyard atmospheres that suit the Pacific Northwest's brooding climate.

Texas-based blackened death metal project Total Human Genocide Division 218 operate at the violent intersection of black and death metal, delivering misanthropic extremity under a name that leaves no ambiguity about their sonic intentions.

New York brutal death metal act Total Invasion trade in the relentless, pulverizing style the state's underground has long championed, locking into the dense rhythmic brutality and guttural extremity of the genre's most uncompromising wing.

Boston deathcore act Totality arrived in 2023 with a sound that bridges crushing deathcore breakdowns with death metal's heavier atmospheric tendencies, adding to New England's increasingly diverse extreme metal landscape.

Newly formed in 2026, Totenschlag deal in black/death metal with the kind of name — German for "manslaughter" — that signals serious intent, representing the genre's most aggressive and unforgiving tendencies.

A Minneapolis death metal and deathcore outfit formed in 2024, Touch of Malice brings the punishing low-end brutality of modern deathcore together with the riff-driven intensity of straight death metal, marking themselves as one of the Twin Cities' newest extreme metal voices.

Formed in 2023 in Colorado Springs, Tovenaar weaves together progressive black and death metal into dense, ambitious compositions that prioritize atmosphere and structural complexity over straightforward aggression — a bold stylistic statement from a young act in Colorado's mountain-city underground.

Active since 2009 out of Lynchburg, Virginia, Towards Global Holocaust traffic in the raw and confrontational territory where black metal's cold tremolo work collides with the grinding brutality of death metal, carrying a relentless, uncompromising edge through their long tenure in the underground.