Florida's Eroguro Phantasmagore takes its name from the Japanese aesthetic of erotic grotesquerie and translates that sensibility into technical, experimental deathcore and grindcore that is deliberately unsettling in both form and content. Formed in 2024, the project attacks its material with maximal density and a refusal to provide easy footholds.

Blasphemous Death / Black Metal / Grindcore from San Antonio.

Long Beach's Eskupe delivers death metal and grindcore from the heart of the LA underground, built fast, loud, and nasty with the kind of no-frills execution that prioritizes impact over technicality. Active since 2012, the band has kept its approach direct and its edge intact.

Sacramento's Eulogy combine death metal's bodily brutality with grindcore's compressed fury, producing short, violent bursts of aggression since 2016. In a city with a storied punk and metal crossover history, they carry that tradition forward with maximum intensity.

Detroit's Excremental Scaphism are a recent and uncompromising entry into the brutal death metal and grindcore space, forming in 2023 with a name that leaves no illusions about their musical intentions. They bring the grind and brutality traditions together under the shadow of the Motor City, a fitting birthplace for music built on industrial noise and extreme aggression.

Ripping Death Metal out of Texas.

Shreveport, Louisiana's Expletive arrived in 2025 armed with brutal death metal brutality and grindcore's economical fury — a pairing that amplifies both to extremes. Shreveport has long existed in the shadow of Louisiana's better-known metal cities, and Expletive sound like a band who've internalized that chip on the shoulder.

Grand Junction's Exussum have been operating in Colorado's high-desert isolation since 2006, blending blackened death metal with grindcore into something caustic and relentless. Their longevity speaks to a genuine commitment to the extremes — two decades of punishment forged in a city not known for its metal infrastructure.