A brutal deathcore band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Cadaverous Contingency melds the crushing low-end devastation of brutal death metal with the breakdowns and rhythmic aggression of deathcore.

Wichita, Kansas act formed in 2014 fusing melodic death metal with groove metal and deathcore, delivering aggressive riffing tempered by melodic hooks.

Chicago-based act fusing melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with the brutality of deathcore breakdowns, delivering technically precise riffwork alongside moments of punishing heaviness.

Norman, Oklahoma death metal and deathcore band delivering a punishing combination of old-school death metal brutality and modern breakdowns, honed through over a decade in the Oklahoma underground.

San Diego deathcore veterans known for combining melodic sensibility with crushing breakdowns and death metal ferocity, one of the genre's most consistent and well-regarded acts blending sweeping lead guitar work with relentless heaviness.

Baltimore's Cast upon the World fuse death metal's guttural intensity with deathcore's structural breakdowns, carving out a sound centered on abrupt tempo drops and suffocating low-end density.

Indianapolis band straddling brutal death metal and deathcore, delivering low-tuned, gut-punching heaviness with technical precision and pit-focused Midwest underground energy.

Celestial Exile from Bylas blends the down-tuned brutality of death metal with the atmospheric heaviness and breakdowns of deathcore, rooted in the Native American community of the San Carlos Apache reservation in Arizona. Their sound carries an outsider intensity shaped by geographic and cultural isolation.

Toledo, Ohio band spanning death metal, deathcore, and progressive metal, combining the breakdown intensity of deathcore with the technical ambition and shifting structures of progressive death.

Chesapeake, Virginia band working across death metal, deathcore, and technical death metal, combining the surgical precision of tech-death with the breakdown intensity of deathcore.

Chaos Brigade is a death metal and deathcore band from Paterson, New Jersey that blends melodic death metal hooks with the crushing heaviness of deathcore. Formed in 2017, the band draws on themes of life, death, and the unknown across their independently released material.

Crushing Deathcore from Houston.

Lancaster, California's Chernobyl Weenie Roast crashes deathcore's breakdown-heavy chug into death metal's technical brutality with a defiantly irreverent name masking a very serious sonic attack. The band leans into the most punishing elements of both styles.

Cleveland's Cholera straddle the line between death metal and deathcore, bringing Midwestern grit to breakdowns and blast beats alike. Their approach is direct and punishing.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania's Chronic Decay operates in the brutal death and deathcore space, delivering thick, down-tuned breakdowns alongside extreme metal riffing rooted in the genre's Pennsylvania underground traditions. Their approach favors brute force over subtlety.