Tulsa's Constant Peril channel death metal, grindcore, and hardcore into a high-velocity assault that burns short and hot, drawing from Oklahoma's scrappy underground to produce raw, confrontational noise.

Baltimore's Constituents blend grindcore's velocity with death metal's weight and hardcore's confrontational edge, channeling the working-class grit of the Maryland scene into short, furious blasts of aggression.

Dallas's Construction Sports are a genre-bending experiment in extremity, hurling death metal, grindcore, sludge, and power metal into chaotic collision in one of Texas's most unpredictable and adventurous heavy acts.

Allen, Texas death/grind act that fuses brutal death metal heaviness with the manic speed of grindcore. Compact, relentless songs built on blast beats and churning low-end aggression.

Tulsa, Oklahoma brutal death/grind band cranking out short, savage blasts of gore-drenched extremity. Their music careens between death metal heaviness and grindcore speed with no regard for restraint.

Weymouth, Massachusetts grind/sludge band colliding the explosive speed of grindcore with the oppressive, tar-thick weight of sludge metal. The collision of those two extremes results in a sound that is both manic and suffocating.

Kansas City's Convulsed grind through brutal death metal with a grindcore-informed hunger for speed and extremity, delivering punishing releases that hit hard and don't overstay their welcome. They're a reliable force in Missouri's underground extreme metal scene.

Oklahoma's Coprophagist bring death metal extremity to Tahlequah, a town far from the genre's traditional urban hubs but no less committed to ferocious, no-compromise brutality. Their existence is a testament to death metal's deep reach into American regional scenes.

Ohio's Coprophagy combine death metal's anatomical horror fixation with grindcore's appetite for speed and brevity, producing short blasts of extremity from the Midwest underground. Their music is blunt, foul, and exactly as aggressive as their name suggests.