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.