Chicago's Torture takes an experimental approach to slam and brutal death metal, pushing the genre toward gorenoise territory with a boundary-defying ugliness that distinguishes them from more straightforward acts.

Out of the small coastal enclave of Baywood-Los Osos, California, Toxic Wizard collapse genre walls with reckless abandon, fusing sludge heaviness, grindcore violence, power metal theatrics, and experimental noise into a deliberately unclassifiable whole since 2016.

Frederick, Maryland's Trail of Wreckage push doom metal into experimental territory since forming in 2020, building on the genre's foundational heaviness while introducing unconventional textures and structures.

Baltimore's Trephine occupy a thoughtful corner of progressive and experimental metal, formed in 2019 with a clear appetite for structure that shifts and breathes rather than simply pulverizes. The city's DIY culture and art-adjacent scene makes it fertile ground for a band more interested in texture and tension than brute force.

Tribalpython is an experimental doom metal project from Anderson, South Carolina, formed in 2010, weaving slow, crushing riffs with unconventional structures and an exploratory sonic approach.

Tribes of Neurot is the ambient/experimental side project of Neurosis members, based in Oakland, California, and active since 1999, releasing dense, ritualistic dark ambient and noise works that serve as sonic companions to the Neurosis catalog.

Typhon is an experimental thrash metal band from Simi Valley, California, formed in 2011 that pushes beyond conventional thrash structures with unconventional arrangements and genre-bending sonic exploration.

Experimental atmospheric metal from Fort Worth. Early material explored avant-garde thrash territory. Releases on Visceral Circuitry Records.

Edwardsville, Illinois death-thrashers Unburied have been plowing through the American underground since 2006, fusing the morbid heaviness of old-school death metal with the kinetic aggression of thrash. No-frills and consistently bruising.