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.

New Jersey's Utgangen occupy a hybrid territory between black metal and melodic death metal since their 2012 formation, a combination that lends their music both harshness and melodic ambition. The Norse-derived name hints at a thematic darkness that runs through the music.

Kansas City's Valiant Reason have been grinding and gutting since 2017, fusing death metal's ferocity with grindcore's relentless pace. Short, savage, and surgically brutal — they're one of the Midwest's most punishing outfits.

San Diego's Valr arrived in 2023 with a progressive approach that fuses the structural complexity of prog metal with the cold fire of black and death metal. The result is a layered, ambitious sound that rewards patient listeners willing to follow it into the dark.

Nashville's Vampiric Baptism drag black metal through the machinery of industrial and gothic darkness, adding deathrock theatrics to the mix since their 2021 formation. The contrast between Music City's roots and their occult, mechanized extremity makes them one of the scene's more unsettling outliers.

Few bands have the tenure of Nacogdoches' Vampyre Deth, who have been stalking the East Texas underground since 1987. Decades into their existence, they remain committed to old-school death metal — raw, lurching, and stubbornly resistant to modern polish.

Cavernous, Incantation-worshipping death metal duo split between Dallas and Atlanta. Released the devastating 'Crypt Born & Tethered to Ruin' on Profound Lore in 2010.

Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from Dallas.

Flagstaff's Vermiform have been twisting melodic death and black metal together since 2011, creating something with the jagged edges of extremity and the structural ambition of melody. A decade-plus of refinement shows in music that bites hard and lingers long after.

York, Pennsylvania's Verminoth have been delivering death metal built for the underground since 2021, embracing the old-school aesthetic of rotten, cavernous brutality. Their name evokes something vast and many-limbed that hasn't seen daylight in a very long time.

San Marcos' Vex have spent twenty years evolving from death-thrash roots into something far more intricate, arriving at a progressive and melodic death metal sound that rewards close attention. Few Texas bands can claim such a deliberate, documented arc of artistic growth across two decades.

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.