California's Central Coast town of Atascadero is an unlikely birthplace for a death-grind outfit, but Emetic have been operating there since 2012, delivering short, savage blasts of noise that owe as much to grindcore's hardcore roots as to death metal's brutality.

Chicago's Empty Grave have been thrashing the crossover circuit since 2016, turning the city's hardcore aggression loose on a hard-charging riff machine that owes equal debts to D.R.I. and early Metallica.

Out of California's high-desert community of Yucca Valley, Emulsified Flesh have been splicing grindcore's manic velocity to death metal's rotting heaviness since 2012.

Los Angeles grindcore veterans who have been grinding since 1989, making them one of Southern California's earliest practitioners of the form. Decades of output and lineup changes have done nothing to blunt their commitment to maximum brevity and maximum violence.

Rhode Island death/grind act from Charlestown, formed in 2022 with a clear intent to push both genres toward their most punishing extremes. Short songs, relentless blasting, and a riff vocabulary drawn from the ugliest corners of both traditions.

Named for a Pacific atoll obliterated by nuclear testing, Orange, California's Enewetak arrived in 2020 with grindcore intensity fused to metalcore structure — short, violent, and purposefully destructive. Their music moves at the speed of a chain reaction, leaving very little standing.

Tacoma's Engross tears through grinding death metal at full throttle, welding the surgical brutality of grindcore to old-school death metal's murk since their 2020 formation.

Memphis' Enraptured blends the visceral speed of grindcore with death metal's tonal punishment, carrying on the Bluff City's tradition of uncompromising extreme music with short, ferocious song structures.

El Cajon's Enthrallment has been fusing death metal and hardcore since 1999, channeling the San Diego underground's pit-ready intensity into a hybrid that hits with the pummeling directness of both genres and the compromise of neither.

Streetsboro, Ohio's Entity of Extinction weaponizes technical death metal and grindcore together, pushing both toward their logical extremes — the precision of the former sharpened by the speed and fury of the latter. Active since 2014 and unrelenting throughout.

Worcester County's goregrind assault unit Entropy grind with maximum intensity and minimal mercy, keeping New England's underground extreme scene sharp since 2020.

Santa Ana goregrind unit with a name designed to offend and music built to match — blasting, absurdist, and utterly indifferent to good taste in the grand tradition of West Coast goregrind.

California's Erizo — Spanish for hedgehog — is anything but soft, weaponizing experimental grindcore and death metal into unpredictable, spiny sonic assaults that defy easy categorization. Active since 2008, the project treats genre as raw material to be shredded and reconfigured rather than adhered to.

Borrowing their name from a campy horror film, Corona, California's Ernest Scared Stupid plays it anything but light, delivering caustic death metal and grindcore laced with punk fury. Two decades of activity since 2003 have honed their approach into fast, filthy, and ferocious releases.

Santa Monica's Erode occupies a difficult-to-pin-down zone where sludge, doom, powerviolence, and abrasive noise collide without resolution. Their catalog resists easy genre placement, favoring texture and density over any single tradition.