Riverside, California's Torn Within, formed in 2022, plays deathcore with a death metal core, bringing the genre's characteristic low-tuned heaviness and rhythmic punishment to the Inland Empire's underground scene. The greater Los Angeles region's long deathcore infrastructure provides a strong platform for their brutality.

Named after the Grand Inquisitor, Norfolk, Virginia's Torquemada delivers unrelenting death metal since 2011, drawing on the genre's most punishment-focused traditions.

Wichita, Kansas' Torrent brings melodic death metal to the plains, pairing Scandinavian-influenced melody with the brutality of American death metal since 2014.

Boise, Idaho's Torrent fuses groove metal's lockstep heaviness with death metal's aggression, a straightforward and punishing act formed in 2014.

Formed in Murfreesboro, Tennessee in 2021, Torsion plays death metal with the directness and physicality that defines the American underground — a young band with a punishing approach.

Seattle's Torsion brings Pacific Northwest grit to death metal, part of a city with a long tradition of extreme metal that dates back to the early 90s.

A brand new Houston, Texas outfit formed in 2025, Torso Mastectomy dives straight into slam and brutal death metal's most visceral territory, adding to Texas' deep tradition of extreme heaviness.

Pennsylvania's Tortuary has been grinding out brutal death metal since their formation, favoring density and extremity over accessibility in the tradition of the East Coast's most unrelenting acts.

Cleveland, Ohio's Tortuary operates in classic death metal territory, drawing on the Rust Belt's blue-collar brutality to deliver stripped-down, no-frills extreme metal.