Melodic deathcore band from Ocala, Florida, formed in 2022, combining the hook-driven melody of melodic death metal with the breakdowns and vocal extremity characteristic of modern deathcore.

Modesto, California act founded in 2015 that blends deathcore brutality with groove metal's mid-tempo churn, delivering a heavy sound built on syncopated riffs and punishing low-end.

Black metal project from New Jersey, formed in 2013, operating in the raw and atmospheric end of the genre with a decidedly underground approach.

Progressive deathcore band from Toms River, New Jersey, formed in 2016, blending the breakdowns and vocal extremity of deathcore with the compositional ambition and dynamic shifts of progressive metal.

Blackened death metal and deathcore band from Sale Creek, Tennessee, formed in 2013, fusing the darkness of black metal with death metal aggression and the structural intensity of deathcore.

Long-running death metal and deathcore band from Chisago City, Minnesota, formed in 1986, one of the rare acts to span the original death metal era and evolve into the modern deathcore landscape over nearly four decades of activity.

Syphilis Ate Her Baby is a deathcore band from Galesburg, Illinois, active since 2007, combining the breakdown-driven heaviness of metalcore with death metal's technical brutality and shock-value lyrical sensibility.

Springfield, Massachusetts' The Acacia Strain have been a defining force in American deathcore since 2004, building a reputation on impossibly dense breakdowns, guttural low-tuned brutality, and a nihilistic worldview that feels more like a threat than a lyrical stance. Their sound sits at the intersection of death metal's technical menace and hardcore's confrontational physicality, with an almost suffocating heaviness that has made them a touchstone for a generation of heavy music fans.

Baltimore's The Contagion Effect have been weaponizing the death metal and deathcore crossover since 2011, delivering a sound that pairs surgical low-end heaviness with the structured brutality deathcore demands. In a city with a deep metal history, they've established themselves as one of the harder-hitting acts in the mid-Atlantic underground.