Atlanta's Dungeon Filth wasted no time after forming in 2021, delivering the kind of grimy, fast-and-ugly hybrid of death metal and grindcore that the name promises without apology. Georgia's extreme underground has a history of unruly, low-fi nastiness, and Dungeon Filth fit squarely in that lineage — short blasts of putrid riffage with zero interest in accessibility. Pure cavern-dwelling brutality.

Lubbock, Texas-based technical death metal and grindcore outfit active since 2011, Dystrophic merges the surgical precision and rhythmic complexity of tech-death with the ferocious brevity of grindcore. Their West Texas origins put them squarely in an unlikely locale for such extreme and technical material.

Pittsburgh's E.F.6 tears through the intersection of death metal and goregrind with blunt-force efficiency, formed in 2018 and operating in a city with a long tradition of underground extremity.

Tucson's Earacher does exactly what grindcore should — short, loud, punishing — and has been delivering that prescription since 2018 from one of the Southwest's most underrated underground scenes.

Chicago's Earthburner is a death metal and grindcore project that launched in 2024, joining one of the country's strongest underground metal cities with a genre combination designed to do maximum damage in minimum time.

East West Blast Test is a collaborative grindcore and power violence project formed in 1999, pairing drummer Dave Witte (Burnt by the Sun, Human Remains) on the East Coast with multi-instrumentalist Chris Dodge (Spazz) on the West Coast, assembling material via mailed tapes. Their self-titled debut (2003) stacked jazz-noise, thrash, and hardcore into 27 rapid-fire tracks, with guests including Municipal Waste's Tony Foresta and Faith No More's Dean Menta. A second album, Popular Music for Unpopular People, raised the chaos further on Ipecac Recordings.

Out of Ojai, California since 2019, this band lives at the collision point of grindcore, death metal, and powerviolence — short songs, maximum hostility, zero tolerance for restraint.

A Ventura, California death-grind act with over a decade behind them, Eat the Living has consistently delivered the kind of gore-soaked, blast-heavy brutality their name promises.

Lucas, Texas grindcore since 2014 — Eaten keeps it short, fast, and punishing, with the kind of no-frills approach that made grind powerful in the first place.