Heavy Brutal Death Metal out of Texas.

Fort Worth's Unraveler pull from melodic death metal's emotional sweep and groove metal's pummeling mid-tempo stomp, a combination that's become their signature since forming in 2012. They're one of the more textured acts in the DFW heavy music scene.

Missouri's Unrelenting Ferocity live up to their name: pure, unadorned death metal with zero interest in melody or experimentation, formed in 2023. What they lack in subtlety they make up for in sheer aggression.

Brand new as of 2024, Omaha's Unthroned fuse death metal's terminal violence with groove metal's swing and stomp, making them one to watch in Nebraska's small but committed heavy music community. The groove/death combination gives them an immediately accessible brutality.

Los Angeles's Upon Stone have built their sound on the melodic death metal tradition since forming in 2021, bringing a gothic sensibility and emotional weight to a genre often dominated by pure aggression. Atmospheric and dark, they stand apart from the coastal city's more straightforward heavy acts.

Philadelphia's Urethra Driller emerged in 2021 playing brutal death metal and goregrind with all the tasteful restraint their name suggests — which is to say, none. Punishingly loud, deliberately offensive, and technically precise in their ugliness.

San Francisco's Urethral specialize in the slam death metal subgenre, building their sound around bone-crushing breakdowns and guttural extremity since 2013. Their Bay Area roots give them a certain grim urban edge that distinguishes them from their Midwest and Southeast counterparts.

Formed in San Luis Obispo, California in 2021, Urine Garden combine brutal death metal and goregrind in the tradition of the most deliberately repulsive corner of extreme music. Crude, fast, and precisely as disgusting as intended.

Usnea formed in Portland, Oregon in 2011, playing an expansive style of doom and death metal that incorporated funeral doom pacing, sludge density, and black metal atmosphere. Their three main studio albums — Usnea (2013), Random Cosmic Violence (2014), and Portals Into Futility (2017) — were released on Relapse Records and earned sustained critical attention within underground doom circles. The band disbanded in 2024 after a final album, Bathed in Light (2023).