Oakland death metal and crust punk band fusing the grime of hardcore punk with the brutality of extreme metal. Their Bay Area edge gives their music a raw, street-level ferocity.

Philadelphia brutal death metal band delivering bone-crushing heaviness and guttural extremity from the City of Brotherly Love. Dense, technical, and relentlessly punishing.

Savage Melodic Death Metal from San Antonio.

Elizabeth, New Jersey black-death metal band fusing icy black metal atmospherics with death metal's unrelenting brutality. Their sound is dark, punishing, and rooted in extreme metal orthodoxy.

New Jersey act fusing deathcore's modern heaviness with death metal brutality and groove metal's rhythmic punch. Their sound is heavy, djent-adjacent, and built for maximum impact.

Pinckney, Michigan black-death metal band combining the icy aggression of black metal with death metal's crushing brutality. Their Midwest roots bring a raw, unpolished intensity to their sound.

Chicopee, Massachusetts brutal death metal band delivering blasphemous, gore-drenched extremity from the New England underground. Dense, guttural, and uncompromisingly brutal.

Yakima, Washington brutal death metal act bringing grinding heaviness and guttural ferocity from the Pacific Northwest interior. Their music is dense, morbid, and relentlessly heavy.

Houston brutal death metal trio fusing hardcore aggression with old-school death metal.

Madison, Wisconsin death metal outfit delivering punishing riffs and guttural extremity in the tradition of the Midwest underground. Their raw, uncompromising approach keeps the genre's most brutal instincts front and center.

Florida-bred death metal and hardcore crossover act merging the punishing heaviness of extreme metal with the aggression and directness of hardcore punk. The result is a collision of brutality that hits hard from both sides.

New York death metal band carving out a grimy corner of the state's long-running extreme music tradition. Their sound leans into the filth and decay that the genre does best.

Providence, Rhode Island death metal act trading in the kind of fetid, rot-soaked heaviness the name implies. They carry on the New England underground's taste for grime-coated brutality.

Elliottsburg, Pennsylvania outfit specializing in the most physically oppressive end of brutal and slam death metal, where breakdowns feel less like transitions and more like cave-ins. Their music is designed to destroy whatever room it's played in.

San Luis Obispo, California death metal and grindcore band channeling the chaotic energy of both scenes into short, vicious blasts of noise. They favor speed and savagery over any pretense of melody.