Maywood, New Jersey act cutting across death metal, groove metal, and thrash with a sound built on rhythmic force and density. Their material hits with a blunt, physical impact.

Los Angeles death metal and deathcore act evoking mythological dread in both name and sonic execution. Their music descends into guttural extremity, marked by technical aggression and punishing breakdowns.

Seminole, Florida death metal and deathcore act blending technical brutality with the kinetic impact of breakdowns. Creatures of Habit brings the Sunshine State's death metal tradition forward into heavier modern territory.

Northwestern Pennsylvania death metal and deathcore act pairing pulverizing breakdowns with melodic death metal sweep and intricate riffing honed in the underground Pennsylvania scene.

Minneapolis technical death metal and deathcore band pushing the boundaries of extreme metal precision, combining punishing breakdowns with labyrinthine compositional complexity.

Hot Springs, Arkansas extreme metal band merging black metal atmosphere with death metal brutality and deathcore breakdowns, occupying the harshest corners of the Arkansas underground.

Brutal deathcore.

Tulsa's Crown of Thorns pushes into extreme territory with a deathcore sound that incorporates death metal's brutality and breakdown-heavy structure, representing the heavier end of Oklahoma's active metal underground. Heavy and unsparing, they're built for live punishment.

Richmond, Virginia's Crucial Rip combine death metal's technical brutality with deathcore's breakdown-driven heaviness into a punishing and visceral sound. The band channels the aggressive spirit of the Richmond metal scene into dense, relentless music.

Nashville, Tennessee deathcore outfit Cult Breather bring punishing breakdowns and brutal death metal riffing to the Southern underground. Their sound is dense, technical, and relentlessly heavy.

San Antonio technical death metal/deathcore. Precision brutality.

Lowell, Massachusetts's Cunt Cuntly started as a bedroom solo project before expanding into a full band that pressed progressive ambition into a deathcore and death metal framework. Active from 2011 to 2017, they built an eclectic discography that showed a restless willingness to cover everything from Judas Priest to Creedence Clearwater Revival alongside their original extremity.

Reno death metal, deathcore, and metalcore band fusing modern extreme metal's heaviest elements into a punishing hybrid. Cyanate layers crushing breakdowns and guttural death metal aggression over a metalcore song framework.