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Bardstown, KY · 2017–present · active
Catatonic Profanation delivers brutal death metal with dense, churning riff patterns, guttural vocals, and blastbeat-driven drumming rooted in the genre's most abrasive underground traditions. The Kentucky project shows influence from slam and technical brutal death metal alongside pure brutality.
Birmingham, AL · 2016–present · active
Catchfire from Birmingham merges the hyper-speed brutality of grindcore with death metal's down-tuned heaviness, producing short, violent songs that burn out in blasts of noise and aggression. Alabama's underground history of extreme music informs their no-frills extremity.
Laramie, WY · 2018–present · active
Catervatim is a death metal project from Laramie, Wyoming, originally formed as a full band from 2004 to 2006 and revived in 2017 as a solo project by original member Travis Kolbo. Releases include the split "Chaos and Cataclysm" and the album "Serpent Shepard."
San Diego, CA · 2006–present · active
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Huntington Beach, CA · 2016–present · active
Huntington Beach extreme metal collective fusing black metal, death metal, grindcore, and sludge into a chaotic, genre-defying hybrid that resists easy categorization.
Visalia, CA · 2013–present · active
Visalia, California melodic death metal band blending metalcore song structures with the melodic riffing and aggressive vocal delivery of the Scandinavian melodic death metal tradition.
Corvallis, OR · 2020–present · active
Corvallis, Oregon funeral doom sextet merging the glacial tempos of funeral doom with black metal's atmospheric coldness and a narrative arc around cycles of death and acceptance.
Denver, CO · 2024–present · active
Denver death metal/grindcore veterans since 1997, inventors of the 'Southwest Doom Violence' sound fusing grindcore blasting with sludge-infused doom passages and crust punk abrasion.
Austin, TX · 2012–present · active
Technical dissonant death metal signed to Willowtip Records. Their sound draws from Obscura-era Gorguts and Immolation, with members Ian Bishop, Chris Hillam, and Sam Kang forming the core lineup since 2012.

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