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Toledo, OH · 2014–present · active
Toledo, Ohio death metal act Mutilatred have been grinding out meat-and-potatoes death metal since 2014, favoring down-tuned brutality and blunt force over technical ornamentation.
Medford, OR · 2025–present · active
Medford, Oregon's Mutilatrix are a fresh 2025 arrival in the slam and brutal death metal underground, stacking bowel-churning low-end slams atop the surgical gore-driven extremity the genre demands.
Leesburg, VA · 2020–present · active
Leesburg, Virginia's Mvrdvrkvltvr pursue a blackened death metal assault since 2020, their deliberately obscured name matching the dense, misanthropic fog they generate across their underground output.
Albuquerque, NM · 2019–present · active
Albuquerque, New Mexico's My Makeshift Grave have developed a melodic death metal sound since 2019 that balances Scandinavian-influenced melody with a desert Southwest directness, landing somewhere between grime and grace.
Lowell, MA · 2014–present · active
Lowell, Massachusetts act My Missing Half have worked a melodic death metal and metalcore hybrid since 2014, combining throat-shredding aggression with structured riffing and the emotionally forward songwriting common to New England's metalcore scene.
Rock Island, IL · 2011–present · active
Rock Island, Illinois death metal band My Pal Trigger have been a fixture of the Midwestern underground since 2011, their sardonically casual name belying a grinding, unrelenting death metal attack.
Dallas, TX · 2005–? · disbanded
Brutal Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore from Dallas.
Eugene, OR · 2022–present · active
Formed in Eugene, Oregon in 2022, Mycelium Shroud takes death metal into psychedelic territory, weaving disorienting, fungal-themed atmosphere into their riff work for a sound as unsettling as the organism they invoke.
Portland, OR · 2023–present · active
Portland's Myconid fuses the d-beat fury of crust punk with the grotesque heaviness of death metal, arriving in 2023 with a filthy, fast-and-brutal sound shaped by the city's long tradition of DIY extreme music crossover.
Southern California · 2015–present · active
Hailing from Southern California, Myconith have been delivering uncompromising brutal death metal since 2015, characterized by punishing down-tuned guitars, blast-beat onslaughts, and guttural vocals that prioritize sheer brutality over melody.
Gainesville, FL · 2021–present · active
Gainesville, Florida's Mycopath brings a death metal attack shaped by one of the American South's most storied extreme metal scenes, channeling the swampy aggression and technical edge that the Florida death metal tradition demands.
Seattle, WA · 2019–present · active
The Seattle-based Myiasis has been carving out death metal territory since 2019, leaning into the genre's classic combination of speed, technical riffing, and relentless aggression in a Pacific Northwest scene known for its no-frills extremity.
West Hazleton, PA · 2014–present · active
A one-man or small-unit project from West Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Myke Owns has been blending the thrashing velocity of thrash metal with death metal's low-tuned malice since 2014, operating deep in the Pennsylvania underground.
Las Vegas, NV · 2010–present · active
Las Vegas melodic death metal outfit Mynas has been active since 2010, blending the hook-laden guitar work of the Swedish melodeath tradition with the heat and isolation of the Nevada desert, crafting music with both melody and menace.
WA · 2011–present · active
Washington State's Myopic defies easy categorization by drawing equally from sludge, black, death, and doom metal, blending these traditions into a dense, multi-layered extremity that has evolved steadily since the band's formation in 2011.

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