F.O.A.M. arrived on the Evansville, Indiana underground in 2024 fusing the blastbeat brutality of grindcore with power metal's melodic ambition — a deliberately jarring combination that keeps listeners off-balance.

Flagstaff, Arizona's Face Pulp waste no time — formed in 2022, they grind through death metal, grindcore, and hardcore punk in the most uncompromising way the high desert allows.

Out of Ashtabula, Ohio, Face Rot have been running blackened grindcore since 2013 — short, vicious songs that swap grind's antisocial energy for a colder, more nihilistic black metal atmosphere.

Wilmington, North Carolina's Faceless Muck have spent over a decade in the death/grind underground since 2010, building a catalog of low-fi brutality that feeds off the coastal South's isolation.

Eugene, Oregon's Facing Extinction have been blasting through grindcore since 2013, an act whose very name and Pacific Northwest home seem to inform a sound built around urgency and short, devastating bursts.

Orange Park, Florida's Factory of Ghouls have been running the death metal and grindcore underground since 1998, one of the region's longest-tenured acts in extreme metal's most relentless corners.

One of Los Angeles' longer-running death metal acts, Fallen Angel have persisted since 1992 in a city that's churned through thousands of bands — a testament to their commitment to the form. Their longevity in the L.A. underground speaks to a stubborn dedication to death metal's roots.

Charleston, South Carolina's False Light has been dismantling songs into grindcore fragments since 2012 — brief, brutal, and over before you can catch your breath. They prove the South has plenty of extremity to offer.

Milwaukee's Falter has been combining the chaos of grindcore with metalcore's structured intensity since 2011. The pairing creates something with both the brevity and fury of grind and the purposeful aggression of core.

A fresh death-grind project out of Middletown, Delaware, Farm Machinery emerged in 2025 with the blunt, industrial violence the name implies. Their sound grinds genre boundaries down to raw material — equal parts gore-flecked death metal and punishing grindcore.

Cleveland's Fascist Insect have been waging sonic war since 2008, fusing the raw political fury of grindcore with the slow-burn punishment of doom and the street-level aggression of crossover. The combination sounds exactly as volatile as it should.

San Antonio brutal death metal/grindcore. Relentlessly heavy and fast.