Philadelphia's Legions of Eligos arrived in 2026 summoning demonic namesake in black and death metal hammered through grindcore's brevity and force. The city's extreme metal underground has a new entry that wastes no time on subtlety.

Liberteer is the solo grindcore project of Santa Cruz, California musician Matthew Widener, better known for his work in Exhumed and Cretin, formed around 2011. Their sole album Better to Die on Your Feet Than Live on Your Knees (2012, Relapse Records) is a dense political statement rooted in anarchist philosophy, notable for grafting brass instruments, banjo, and mandolin onto a blasting death-grind foundation. The project remains a curio of the early 2010s extreme metal underground for its ideological commitment and unusual instrumentation.

Cleveland goregrind practitioners Ligament arrived in 2025 tearing through death metal and goregrind with anatomical precision, adding a fresh dose of visceral noise to the city's proud extreme metal lineage.

San Marcos death/grind outfit formed in 2020, delivering punishing blastbeats and caustic riffs with the relentless intensity the Texas underground demands.

Crushing Death Metal / Grindcore from San Antonio.

Knoxville's Lo Pan channel pure grindcore energy into short, violent bursts, keeping the chaos tightly coiled and the runtime mercifully — or brutally — brief.