Devastating Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore (early); Deathcore (later) from San Antonio.

Hewitt, New Jersey's Sirens formed in 2020 working across metalcore, deathcore, and death metal, combining breakdown-driven aggression with increasingly extreme sonic territory and reflecting the evolution of the East Coast heavy music scene.

Portland, Oregon act formed in 2012 that merges the mechanical rhythmic precision of djent with the crushing weight of deathcore and metalcore, built around polyrhythmic chugging and technical breakdowns. The "Sisyphean" in their name feels earned — their music is dense, cyclical, and relentlessly uncompromising.

Seattle deathcore and death metal band formed in 2012, drawing from the Pacific Northwest's fertile extreme metal underground to craft music built on technical brutality and the chugging intensity that defines deathcore at its most unrelenting. Over a decade in, they are a fixture of the Seattle underground.

A Florida brutal deathcore act formed in 2022, Skin Stripper pushes the extremity dial toward the red — combining the suffocating low-end of slam-inflected brutality with deathcore's penchant for breakdown-driven punishment.

Out of Wahpeton, North Dakota, Skin the Lamb has been carrying the deathcore torch since 2016 in one of the country's most sparsely populated metal scenes — a testament to the genre's reach far beyond major urban centers.

Ripping Death Metal / Deathcore from Dallas.

Slaadh are a freshly formed progressive deathcore band from Detroit, Michigan, blending the heaviness of brutal death metal with technical arrangements and the cinematic scale that defines modern progressive metal. Active since 2025, they represent a new wave of boundary-crossing extremity emerging from the Midwest.

Slam Pig are a Milwaukee, Wisconsin band formed in 2023, blending slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore into a deliberately lowbrow package of breakdowns, gutturals, and grinding intensity. Their Bandcamp handle flags a Texas connection that points to cross-regional ties in the slam underground.