Mount Laurel's Hate Breeder, formed in 2024, navigate the space between melodic death metal's harmonic sophistication and metalcore's structural punch. A fresh entry in New Jersey's growing extreme metal scene.

San Antonio's Hate Collider have been smashing death and thrash metal together since 2014, generating the kind of impact the name suggests. South Texas aggression runs through their approach, drawing from a city with a long history of extreme music.

Tampa's Hate Eternal are one of Florida death metal's most enduring forces, founded in 1999 by Erik Rutan — himself a Morbid Angel guitarist — as a vehicle for hyper-technical, unrelenting brutality. Over two decades of records have cemented their place among the genre's most technically accomplished acts.

Chicago's Hate Force have been dealing death metal from the city's hard-edged underground since 2014. Straightforward in their mission, they favor dense, grinding execution over experimentation — Midwestern death metal with industrial-city backbone.

Connecticut's Hate Inclination carve out brutal death metal with a focused, technically demanding sound since 2014. Their approach leans into the subgenre's characteristic density — complicated rhythmically, unstoppable in momentum.

Providence's Hate Lord emerged in 2023 blending the structural weight of deathcore with death metal's more traditional brutality. Rhode Island's small but fierce extreme scene is well-served by their dense, suffocating sound.

Charleston's Hate Machine have been producing death metal out of the South Carolina Lowcountry since 2021, a region not typically on extreme metal's radar — making their presence there all the more notable. Raw and unpolished in the best tradition of underground death.

New Orleans's Hate Seed arrived in 2019 carrying death metal into a city already thick with extreme music traditions. The NOLA atmosphere lends the music a murky, humid quality — death metal soaked in bayou air.

Akron's Hate Theory have been working the fertile middle ground between death metal and metalcore since 2017, building a sound with the brutality of the former and the structural hooks of the latter. Ohio's industrial heritage informs their heavy, purposeful approach.