Connecticut's Margo have been pushing a death metal and deathcore hybrid out of Wallingford since 2015, with a sound that emphasizes heaviness and intensity over any tendency toward accessibility. Exactly what you'd expect from a band that has no interest in being easy.

Warren, Michigan's Masses in Atrophy blend death metal brutality with deathcore's structural heaviness into something that hits with the weight of the Rust Belt's industrial decay. Since 2019 they've been one of Metro Detroit's more punishing contributions to the extreme underground.

Columbus' Massive Gun arrived in 2023 with a death metal and deathcore sound that's as direct as their name suggests — blunt, heavy, and built around maximum impact. Ohio's metal scene has a long tradition of producing bands with no interest in subtlety.

Brutal Technical Death Metal / Deathcore out of Texas.

Atlanta's Mirthless fuse progressive death metal architecture with deathcore muscle, bringing technical song construction and shifting dynamics to a brutally heavy foundation that has made them one of Georgia's more compositionally ambitious extreme acts since 2017.

Las Vegas's Misericordiam are one of Nevada's most sonically restless extreme acts, having moved through grindcore, deathcore, brutal death metal, and hardcore over nearly two decades, always holding to a philosophy of unrelenting aggression and maximum sonic density.

Kenosha, Wisconsin's Monarch Dethroned combine the downtuned savagery of deathcore with the technical brutality of death metal, building a punishing sound since their 2016 formation.

MoonGod is a Union, New Jersey project formed in 2013 that straddles black metal, death metal, and deathcore — a combination that yields dense, heavy music with extremity coming from multiple directions simultaneously. The deathcore element brings a breakdown-ready low-end to what would otherwise be a straightforward blackened death framework.

Longview, Texas act formed in 2014, stacking technical death metal intricacy on top of a deathcore framework for a sound that is simultaneously punishing and precisely executed. They represent the East Texas underground's willingness to push extremity beyond genre borders.