Cleveland's Vicar Blood arrived in 2025 dragging the rot-soaked tradition of Midwest death metal behind them like a corpse. Unholy in name and uncompromising in execution, they channel the rust-belt grimness of their city into suffocating, grave-deep brutality.

Denver's Victim of Fire scorch through the boundary between death metal and crust punk, letting both sides burn at equal intensity. Founded in 2019 at a mile-high altitude, their sound carries the breathless, frantic energy of both underground traditions.

Out of Colorado Springs since 2023, Victim Ritual treat death metal as a ceremony — methodical, purposeful, and deeply sinister. They're among the newer voices rising from Colorado's increasingly fertile extreme metal underground.

Seattle's Vile Command conjure black/death metal that feels as damp and lightless as the Pacific Northwest in November. Since 2020, the band has fused the two sub-genres with a palpable sense of siege, each riff another wall closing in.

Devastating Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Dickinson.

Los Angeles' Vile Invokation summon the blackened death metal tradition with occult deliberateness since their 2022 founding, treating each track as a genuine rite rather than a performance. The city's sprawling darkness provides fertile ground for the kind of sinister atmosphere they conjure.

Talkeetna, Alaska's Vile Rebirth write doom/death metal from one of the most remote and desolate settings imaginable, and the isolation audibly seeps into their glacially slow tempos and mournful density. Since 2020, they've turned the brutal Alaskan wilderness into a sound.

Chicago's Vile Secretion have been operating in the city's uncompromising death metal underground since 2017, delivering the kind of fleshy, old-school brutality that requires no explanation. The name tells you everything you need to know, and they deliver on every syllable of it.

San Diego's Village of the Damned picked up the torch of late 1990s California death metal when they formed in 2024, continuing a lineage of brutality deeply embedded in the state's extreme metal scene. The name carries cult-horror weight that their sound fully justifies.