Crushing Progressive Death Metal from Flower Mound/Austin.

Atlanta's Malefic blend black and death metal with the swampy intensity that defines Southern extreme music, conjuring something both feral and atmospheric. Since 2018 they've been a dark presence in Georgia's heavy underground.

Ferocious Melodic Death / Thrash Metal from Dallas/Fort Worth/Arlington.

Fort Lauderdale death metal institution Malevolent Creation have been one of the genre's defining acts since the Florida death metal explosion, with a catalog of technically precise, brutally efficient records spanning decades. Still active and uncompromising, they remain a benchmark for American death metal.

Cohoes, New York's Malicious Offense are brutal death metal newcomers who arrived in 2024 to make noise in the Capital Region's underground. Short on subtlety and long on punishment, they go straight for the throat.

Members drawn from War Master, Oceans of Slumber, and Necrofier. 'Realms of Exquisite Morbidity' (2021) on Dark Descent Records is a crushing slab of cavernous, doom-inflected death metal.

Death metal meets hardcore punk meets d-beat. Relentless energy.

Long Island's Mangled have been punishing listeners with brutal death metal since 2006, carrying on the New York area's tradition of uncompromising extremity without apology. Dense, technical, and brutally efficient.

Connecticut's Maniacal Violator have been carving out a niche in the black/death underground since 2016, blending the cold hostility of black metal with death metal's brute physicality. Raw, violent, and deliberately unpolished.

Gary, Indiana's Manifestations emerged in 2022 at the intersection of death metal and deathcore, reflecting a Rust Belt heaviness that comes through in every breakdown and blastbeat. The band draws from the surrounding region's working-class edge to fuel some genuinely punishing material.

Los Angeles' Manipulated Mutilation have occupied the brutal end of the death metal spectrum since 2009, blending slam's bone-snapping groove with the surgical extremity of technical deathcore. The result is visceral, precise, and entirely uncompromising.

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Named after a viral hemorrhagic fever, Los Angeles' Marburg bring clinical precision to their hybrid of technical death metal and grindcore. Formed in 2016, the band strips both genres down to their most potent elements — speed, density, and surgical brutality.

Connecticut's Margo have been pushing a death metal and deathcore hybrid out of Wallingford since 2015, with a sound that emphasizes heaviness and intensity over any tendency toward accessibility. Exactly what you'd expect from a band that has no interest in being easy.

Denver's Martriden draw from both death and black metal to create something tempestuous and technically ambitious, the high-altitude Mile High City providing an appropriate backdrop for their cold, expansive sound. Active since 2015, they've built a reputation in the Mountain West underground.