A Los Angeles thrash metal band formed in 2018, this Slaughterhouse draws from Southern California's rich thrash heritage — a lineage that runs from the Big Four's influence through decades of LA underground bands keeping the genre's speed and aggression alive.

Battle Creek, Michigan grindcore act formed in 2022, operating in the intersection of goregrind and grind 'n' roll — combining absurdist grime with relentless blasting and a loose, rock-infected swagger. Sleaze Lord bring an irreverent energy to Michigan's extreme underground.

Phoenix's Sligm are a fresh 2025 entry into the city's extreme metal scene, combining death metal's sonic brutality with grindcore's appetite for brevity and relentless speed. Their arrival signals another addition to Arizona's increasingly active underground extreme metal community.

Baltimore's Sloth Herder collide black metal's corrosive blast with grindcore's ferocious brevity, producing music that is simultaneously overwhelming in speed and density since 2012. Their hybrid attack places them among Maryland's most confrontational extreme metal acts.

Greenville, South Carolina band formed in 2022 blending grindcore, death metal, and crust punk into a furious, politically-charged noise assault in the tradition of Southern hardcore-metal crossover.

Smoldering Torso is a brutal death metal and grindcore band from Santa Venetia, California, formed in 2022, delivering relentlessly savage music that combines grindcore's speed and brevity with the gut-punching brutality of BDMG extremity.

Los Angeles grindcore band active since 1996, one of the longer-running acts in the Southern California extreme underground, committed to the blast-beat intensity of the genre across their career.

Albuquerque brutal death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, delivering relentlessly punishing extremity rooted in the Southwest underground scene.

Los Angeles experimental grindcore and death metal act formed in 2016, pushing extreme metal into unpredictable territory through unconventional song structures and noise-driven abrasion.