Ripping Death / Thrash Metal from San Antonio.

Vverevvolf Grehv is the solo project of Dapose, a musician from Omaha, Nebraska best known as a member of the electronic act The Faint, combining death metal brutality, speed metal tempos, and industrial noise with the structural logic of IDM and electronic music. Signed to Relapse Records in 2007, the project released its sole album Zombie Aesthetics in 2008, a confrontational and genre-defying record that found a place in both the metal underground and experimental electronic circles. The band subsequently toured with Skinny Puppy.

Columbus, Ohio band weaving Gothic gloom into melodic death metal, pairing the melancholic atmosphere of the Gothic tradition with driving riffs and death metal aggression. Active since 2022, they occupy the darkly romantic space between mid-era Paradise Lost and Scandinavian melodeath.

Riverside, California death metal band formed in 2020, adding another voice to the Inland Empire's long history of brutal underground metal. Their approach draws from the meat-and-bones tradition of American death metal, built on punishing riffs and relentless percussion.

Binghamton, New York death metal act operating under the Swedish word for "apparition" or "ghost," a name that hints at a sound influenced by the spectral, rotten-sounding Swedish death metal tradition. Active since 2012, they've quietly maintained a presence in the upstate New York underground.

Spartanburg, South Carolina band fusing black metal, death metal, and noise into a corrosive, boundary-dissolving sound since 2018. The Vølus name evokes Norse mythological resonance, and the band's blackened death approach carries the dense, suffocating weight that typifies the genre's most extreme convergences.