Raleigh's Crypt Walk make an unlikely but energetic fusion of grindcore aggression and power metal melodics. The combination results in surprisingly catchy extreme metal that careens between blast-beat fury and soaring riff moments.

Mingo Junction, Ohio's Cryptic Abuse smash together brutal death metal and grindcore into relentlessly punishing music from the heart of the rust belt underground. Their recordings are deliberately unclean, prioritizing crushing impact over studio gloss.

Death metal and grindcore act from Cleveland, Ohio formed in 2004 as a gore-and-humor-themed side project of Violent Night members, releasing material on Electric Ice Records before the members moved on. The band has stated no plans to reform.

Gulf Coast grindcore featuring Insect Warfare drummer Frank Faerman.

Galesburg, Illinois's Cult of Mutants collapse death metal, grindcore, sludge, and experimental noise into a deliberately deformed mass with little regard for genre tidiness. The result is exactly what the name suggests — a mutated, grotesque thing that thrives in the margins of extreme music.

Lakeland, Florida's Cum Soaked Corpses Leaking Rectal Discharge are a two-piece goregrind duo who weaponize slamming rhythms, guttural extremity, and intentional provocation into brief, relentless bursts of brutal death metal noise. Self-described as stoned, drunk scumbags, they've released a steady stream of material including the 2023 full-length Indica Cocaine.

Nashville's Cumshot Wound are a grindy noise-worship unit who pack visceral, relentless riffs and raw, socio-political lyrical content into short, grinding blasts that blur the lines between death metal, grindcore, and metalcore. Formed in 2024 and signed to Scum City Entertainment, they quickly became one of Tennessee's most confrontational new acts.

Chicago's Curbstomp combined the amphetamine pace of thrash with the swampy heaviness of sludge metal into a direct, combative sound that fit naturally into the Windy City's abrasive underground. Active from 2000, the band operated as an independent act before eventually parting ways.

Jackson, Tennessee's Curmudgeon describe their music as 'hermit metal,' a self-aware tag for their idiosyncratic mix of doom, stoner heaviness, and grindcore brevity that resists easy categorization. Active since 2006, the Tennessee outliers built a small but devoted following by doing exactly as they pleased in the middle of nowhere.

Henderson, Texas death/grind act delivering fast, violent, and purposefully brief sonic assaults. Cursed Ibex merges the extremity of grindcore with the heaviness of death metal in grinding East Texas fashion.

Columbus, Ohio death/grind band blending the speed and brevity of grindcore with the brutal riff vocabulary of death metal. Curta Alis delivers short, sharp, and relentlessly violent extreme metal attacks.

Pittsburgh grindcore and metalcore band fusing brief, violent grind blasts with the heavy breakdowns of metalcore. Cutting Ties channels the Pennsylvania city's underground intensity into short, punishing bursts.

Yorktown, Virginia technical death and grindcore band named for a Lovecraftian entity, merging clinical precision with brutal extremity. Cyaegha delivers technically demanding death metal with the frenzied velocity of grind.

Boston death/grind band operating in the New England extreme metal underground with an unrelenting approach to brutality and noise. Cynicism attacks with short, punishing blasts of combined death metal and grindcore aggression.

Asheville, North Carolina brutal death and grindcore band piling grotesque extremity onto a foundation of pummeling low-tuned riffs and blast-beat ferocity. Cystic Nourishment weaponizes Appalachian underground intensity through the most unrelenting corners of extreme metal.