Decrepit Throne operate from an undisclosed location with a black/death metal sound that values atmosphere and menace over geographic identity. Since 2017, they've built a catalog steeped in ruinous, occult-tinged darkness.

Old school death/doom in the Autopsy and Incantation tradition. Started as a solo project of prolific multi-band mastermind Elektrokutioner (Encoffination, Father Befouled).

Corpus Christi brutal death metal act Decrepited bring the full weight of South Texas's extreme metal underground to bear, crafting dense, gore-drenched brutality since 2019. A coastal city's answer to the genre's most uncompromising demands.

Midwest-based Decrescent have charted a fascinating arc since 2018 — beginning in the angular complexity of technical death metal before pivoting toward black metal's more atmospheric, elusive darkness. Both phases are united by a relentless drive toward extremity.

Crown Point, Indiana's Decrypt have been merging technical death metal's precision with grindcore's ferocity since 2002, making them one of the longer-running acts in the region's extreme underground. Two decades in, the attack has only sharpened.

Cincinnati's Dedwurm twist progressive ambition into the ugliest corners of sludge and death metal, building crawling, labyrinthine structures that collapse in on themselves.

Formed in Boston in 2022, Deep Fear bring a metalcore attack sharpened on the city's hardcore tradition — urgent, suffocating, and built on a hair-trigger temper.

Chicago's Deep in Shit have been running death metal, grindcore, and hardcore through a meat grinder since 2013, producing short, furious assaults with no room for mercy.

Out of Bellingham, Washington, Deep Recess conjure psychedelic black/death metal that feels like descending through fog — disorienting, atmospheric, and uncommonly heavy for a project barely a year old.