Heavy Melodic Black / Death Metal from Bryan/Caldwell.

Springfield, Missouri death metal project with eight releases since 2024 — a breathtaking pace that matches their name's reference to the cessation of breathing. Titles spanning Spanish (Brétema) and science fiction (Childhood's End) reveal eclectic literary tastes beneath the extremity.

Tampa death metal project from the Florida underground.

East Los Angeles crossover thrash project from the California underground.

Ruthless Death Metal / Deathcore from Eagle Lake.

Death metal act that migrated from Jacksonville to Houston, building a catalog of splits and full-lengths since 2017. Manufactured Dreams delivers the kind of grinding, unrelenting extremity that thrives in Texas's sprawling underground.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania death metal outfit active since 2018. Three releases culminating in the full-length Instinctual Self-Slaughter trace an evolution from raw early EPs to refined brutality, all from Pennsylvania's capital city.

Cleveland death metal project from the Ohio underground.

New Jersey death metal project whose 2014 single Wheels Within Wheels suggests Ezekiel-inspired cosmic horror. A brief but potent statement from the Garden State's extreme underground.