Chicago's Deep in Shit have been running death metal, grindcore, and hardcore through a meat grinder since 2013, producing short, furious assaults with no room for mercy.

Florida's Deepslate launched in 2023 with death metal's cruelty fused to grindcore's contempt for runtime — punishing, compact, and calibrated to leave wreckage.

Springfield, Missouri's Deepthroat Defecation arrived in 2024 armed with slam, goregrind, and brutal death metal, making zero concessions to restraint or good taste.

Savage Brutal Death Metal / Grindcore from Mesquite, Texas (early); Kansas City, Missouri (later).

Kansas City's Defaced operate at the brutal end of the death metal spectrum, weaponizing grindcore's velocity and slam's punishing low-end into a compact, merciless attack.

Out of Savannah, Georgia, Defeat the Oppressor have been leveling the landscape since 2012 with a hybrid of death metal's surgical brutality and grindcore's furious economy of violence. Their songs hit like a compactor — dense, politically charged, and built for maximum physical impact in minimum runtime.

New York's Defeatist have been honing their death-grind blade since 2009, fusing blast-heavy grindcore with the technical precision of death metal in a way that sounds less like a compromise and more like a surgical escalation. Their reputation rests on dense, fast compositions that reward repeated listens despite — or because of — their relentless pace.

Los Angeles' Defigurement arrived in 2024 playing technical grindcore — a subgenre that demands both speed and compositional intelligence, and which has a notoriously small margin for error. Even in one of the world's most crowded metal markets, their hyper-precise approach to grind stands out for its surgical intensity.

Murrieta, California's Defleshment Engorgement have been combining death metal and grindcore since 2021 in a Southern California exurb that sits between San Diego and Los Angeles — close enough to both cities' scenes to absorb influences from each. Their hybrid approach leans goregrind-adjacent, with a focus on visceral, speed-driven compositions.