Spinal Fluid is a Minneapolis slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, focused on the pit-ready downtuned breakdowns and guttural extremity that define the slam subgenre.

Spiteful Visions is a Minneapolis death metal and deathcore band formed in 2022, incorporating melodic and technical death metal elements alongside deathcore breakdowns for a multifaceted approach to extreme metal.

Los Angeles progressive death metal and deathcore act Sporemacide formed in 2025, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the heaviness of death metal and deathcore.

Stabbing Serenade is a death metal and deathcore band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 2024, combining deathcore's breakdown-driven aggression with the technical and melodic elements of contemporary death metal.

Atlanta, Georgia death metal and deathcore band formed in 2024, Starved of Light combines the brutal riffing and technical heaviness of death metal with the structural breakdown elements of deathcore.

Steve Irwin is a deathcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2015. Named provocatively after the late wildlife conservationist, the band delivers the crushing breakdowns, blast beats, and death metal-influenced riffing central to the deathcore genre.

Hertford, North Carolina deathcore outfit active since 2010, delivering punishing breakdowns and low-tuned brutality drawn from the death metal and deathcore traditions of the American Southeast.

Deathcore and death metal band from Oriskany, New York, formed in 2008, one of the longer-running acts in the Central New York extreme metal underground. Their sound moved from death-thrash roots toward the breakdown-heavy intensity of deathcore.

New Jersey band formed in 2011 that began in death and thrash metal before transitioning toward deathcore, documented by Metal-Archives as progressing from death/thrash roots to a heavier breakdown-driven sound. They have built a following in the Northeast underground over their decade-plus of activity.

Succubus is an Atlanta, Georgia band formed in 2017 that moves between ambient black metal and brutal death metal/deathcore, creating a jarring contrast between oppressive atmosphere and outright sonic violence.

Succumb to Demise is a technical deathcore band from Lexington, Kentucky, formed in 2017, combining the intricate fretwork of technical death metal with deathcore's breakdowns and aggressive vocal style.

Suffer is a Dayton, Ohio deathcore band formed in 1993, combining death metal brutality with the breakdowns and aggression of deathcore in the fertile Ohio heavy music underground.

Dallas deathcore act formed in 2017, blending the crushing breakdowns and guttural extremity of death metal with the rhythmic aggression of the deathcore genre.

Wichita, Kansas band formed in 2019 that evolved from deathcore roots into a symphonic and melodic death metal sound, incorporating orchestral elements and sweeping melodic structures alongside extreme metal aggression.

Suigenocide is a Seattle, Washington technical death metal and deathcore band formed in 2023, combining intricate riffing and complex structures with the brutality of the deathcore aesthetic.