Portage, Indiana's Mortuus have been at the brutal death/deathcore crossroads since 2005, building a reputation for monstrous low-tuned riffs and guttural excess in a scene more typically associated with Midwestern hardcore.

Nashville's Moru began as a hardcore-rooted unit before evolving into something considerably heavier — their later work fuses progressive death metal architecture with deathcore aggression, reflecting a band willing to follow their instincts wherever the music leads.

Named after the synthetic element with atomic number 115, Albuquerque death metal act Moscovium formed in 2022 and bring a methodical, heavy approach to the genre — an emerging force in New Mexico's underground.

Atlanta deathcore/death metal act Mosura — named after the iconic kaiju — have been delivering monster-sized low-end punishment and groove-heavy breakdowns since 2017, a fixture in the Georgia extreme metal scene.

Indianapolis death/doom act Mother of Graves have been one of the more compelling newer voices in melodic death-doom since forming in 2019 — their sound draws on the Finnish tradition of grief-soaked melody without merely imitating it.

Out of Whitney Point in rural upstate New York, Motivational Death merge groove metal's mid-paced swagger with the blunt force of death metal, creating a sound that favors heavy impact over technical display. The band formed in 2021 and embraces a sardonic, wry edge in both name and approach.

Bucks County, Pennsylvania's Mountain Shadow are a newly formed (2024) project spanning an unusually wide stylistic range — atmospheric black metal, folk metal, death metal, doom, and death-doom — suggesting a band intent on using the full palette of extreme metal rather than settling into a single lane. The project's scope and ambition make it one of the more intriguing recent arrivals in the Pennsylvania underground.

A death metal outfit from Spring Lake, Michigan, Mourn have been grinding out brutal, no-frills death metal since 2015 with a raw, unpolished ferocity rooted in the Midwest underground.

Longmont, Colorado's Mourned by Flies have been delivering unrelenting death metal since 2008, earning their place in the Front Range underground through a commitment to grimy, no-compromise brutality.

Based in Kensington, Maryland, this Mourning have been writing heavy, deliberate doom metal since 2008, drawing on the genre's most crushing and melancholic traditions with the patience of a band that knows the power of restraint.

A New Jersey black/death metal act, this Mourning fuse the cold, tremolo-drenched attack of black metal with death metal's visceral heaviness, forging a harsh and unyielding sound since 2008.

Monolithic Doom Metal from Houston.

Operating out of the Omaha, Nebraska area, Mourning Veil combine the ferocity of death metal with black metal's corrosive atmosphere, forging a death/black hybrid that is both technically driven and darkly expressive.

Lansing, Michigan's Mourning Wolf have been merging melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with black metal's bleak, tremolo-driven intensity since 2013, crafting a hybrid sound rooted in the northern Midwest underground.

Fairfax, Virginia's Mournspire traffic in death/doom of the heavy and suffocating variety, blending the genre's slow, crushing tempos with death metal's brutal downtuned attack in a sound that has been taking shape since 2017.