Sioux City, Iowa death/thrash act formed in 2012, occupying the aggressive intersection between the two styles in a part of the Great Plains that produces metal with an unadorned, no-frills intensity born of working far outside the spotlight of major coastal scenes.

Scranton, Pennsylvania outfit formed in 2013 who blend melodic death metal's tunefulness with groove metal's rhythmic heaviness, finding a middle ground between accessibility and brutality that suits the anthemic tendencies of both styles.

Kansas City, Missouri death metal act formed in 2019, bringing the genre's extremity to the heartland with a name that frames their music as an exercise in sustained punishment and a commitment to uncompromising brutality.

Washington state death metal and grindcore outfit formed in 2014, combining the technical and compositional aggression of death metal with grindcore's economy and explosive speed — a combination well-represented in the Pacific Northwest underground.

A death metal outfit from Seattle active since 2023, this incarnation of Threnodist pursues the heavier end of the spectrum, channeling the Pacific Northwest's long tradition of unrelenting, downtuned brutality.

Reading, Pennsylvania's Threnody have been grinding out death metal since 2012, drawing on the Mid-Atlantic's blue-collar extreme metal tradition to deliver punishing, no-frills heaviness.

Portland, Oregon's Threnody push death metal into progressive and experimental territory, building compositions that shift and mutate across dynamic extremes while keeping one foot firmly planted in visceral heaviness.

Hanover, Pennsylvania's Threnody are a death metal unit formed in 2012, adding yet another chapter to the state's deep legacy of underground extreme metal with their punishing, mid-Atlantic approach to the style.

Atlanta, Georgia's Threshold of Pain fuse the muscular backbone of heavy metal with punk-inflected urgency and hard rock swagger, forging a raucous, street-level sound that resists easy categorization since their formation in 2015.