Manchester, New Hampshire extreme metal project with an eclectic approach since 2020. Their split with Blu Anxxiety and a Black Sabbath cover of Black Hole Sun reveal a band drawing from multiple corners of heavy music, united by raw intensity.

Savage Melodic / Progressive Death Metal / Grindcore from Brownsville.

Death metal act that migrated from the Clearwater/Tampa corridor to Austin, Texas, carrying Florida's legendary death metal DNA into the Lone Star State. Their two albums — Age of Overload and Lords of Destiny — blend old-school Florida brutality with a fresh perspective.

Denver death metal project from the Colorado underground.

Walpole, Massachusetts death metal project delivering old-school extremity since 2022. Their Sacred Vessel EP and follow-up demo channel the New England tradition of grim, no-frills death metal — cold, dark, and unforgiving as a Massachusetts winter.

Euless death metal project from the Texas underground.

Milwaukee death metal project from the Wisconsin underground.

Chicago death metal outfit active since 2010. Their debut EP Burning Lies and full-length Living in the Wrong Time deliver straightforward, punishing death metal from a city whose extreme underground runs deep beneath the blues and jazz surface.

Glenwood Springs, Colorado death metal project whose 2015 debut The Chosen Slain channels mountain isolation into brutal extremity. Operating from a ski town in the Rockies, they bring death metal to one of the genre's most improbable locations.