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West Palm Beach death metal and deathcore hybrid with progressive ambitions. Their 2012 full-length The Seven Sounds weaves technical complexity through crushing heaviness, emerging from South Florida's deep well of extreme talent.
Lancaster death metal project from the Pennsylvania underground.
Salt Lake City death metal project with an enormous eleven-release discography since 2012. Named after a demon from the Ars Goetia, their catalog sprawls across singles, compilations, and full-lengths that probe the boundaries of extreme music from the unlikely backdrop of Mormon country.
New York City death metal enigma whose 2013 debut Cosmic Collision Into The Fifth Dimension launches into interstellar extremity. The name alone — part alien taxonomy, part fever dream — signals a band operating far outside conventional death metal's orbit.
Chicago and Oklahoma City doom metal collaboration channeling existential dread since 2021. Their full-length How to Look Forward to the Apocalypse pairs a darkly humorous title with genuinely crushing doom, while Life In Jars suggests a more intimate, claustrophobic heaviness.
Savage Black / Death Metal out of Texas.
Phoenix death metal project from the Arizona underground.
Atlantic Highlands death metal project from the New Jersey underground.
Oakland death metal project from the California underground.
Crown Point/Chesterton, Indiana death metal project whose 2014 EP The Weeping Bonesaw Tapes sounds exactly as horrific as the title suggests. Northwest Indiana's industrial lakefront provides fitting backdrop for their brand of grisly extremity.
Sunol death metal project from the California underground.
Manchester death metal project from the New Hampshire underground.
Texas death metal project.
Lacey, Washington death metal act arriving in 2026 with the EP We Ate Him. The Pacific Northwest's extreme underground continues to produce bands committed to death metal's most transgressive impulses.
Kansas City/Tampa death metal legends delivering some of the most ferocious war metal in American history.
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