Sterling, Virginia's Hatefuck have been grinding out their caustic blend of brutal death and grindcore since 2013, delivering short, unrelenting volleys of noise and violence with no regard for subtlety or mercy.

Out of De Pere, Wisconsin, Hatekill treat death metal and grindcore as interchangeable weapons, blasting through material with the kind of blunt efficiency that leaves little room for breath or reflection.

Absolutely punishing grindcore / powerviolence from Houston.

Hoboken's Hayaino Daisuki translates roughly as 'I love speed' — and they mean it, delivering blistering blasts of thrash-infused grindcore that rarely slow long enough to catch a breath. Since 2008 they've been one of New Jersey's most furiously paced metal exports.

Battle Creek, Michigan's Headcheese are a gloriously repugnant collision of slam death metal, brutal death, and goregrind, weaponizing grotesque imagery and gut-punch breakdowns with the enthusiasm of a band that genuinely loves how ugly their music can get. Since 2020 they've been an ideal entry point for listeners who want their death metal without any refinement.

St. Louis's Headworm tunnel through the brain with a particularly nasty strain of death metal and grindcore, collapsing the distance between surgical brutality and pure chaotic noise. Since 2018, they've been one of Missouri's more abrasive underground exports.

Denver grindcore act Heathen Burial formed in 2017 and have since delivered short, violent blasts of controlled chaos that exemplify the genre's contempt for excess. They're a reliable fixture in Colorado's extreme underground, fast and pitiless by design.

Cincinnati's Heathen Knight throw thrash, death metal, and grindcore into a single chaotic vessel and let the collision speak for itself. Since 2016, the Ohio act has favored brutish efficiency over nuance, making them one of the Midwest's more reliably ferocious crossover outfits.

Formed in Mentor, Ohio in 1993, Hemdale were a grind-gore band whose abrasive extremity and relentless live performances earned them a significant underground following before a 1997 split. The band's 1996 split release with Exhumed, In the Name of Gore, remains a key document of the era, and their network extended through drummer Craig Rowe's Visceral Productions, which played a role in the early careers of Nile, Exhumed, and Dying Fetus. Hemdale reformed in 2013 with vocalist and guitarist Matthew Rositano as the sole original member.