Ripping Death Metal out of Texas.

Shreveport, Louisiana's Expletive arrived in 2025 armed with brutal death metal brutality and grindcore's economical fury — a pairing that amplifies both to extremes. Shreveport has long existed in the shadow of Louisiana's better-known metal cities, and Expletive sound like a band who've internalized that chip on the shoulder.

Grand Junction's Exussum have been operating in Colorado's high-desert isolation since 2006, blending blackened death metal with grindcore into something caustic and relentless. Their longevity speaks to a genuine commitment to the extremes — two decades of punishment forged in a city not known for its metal infrastructure.

F.O.A.M. arrived on the Evansville, Indiana underground in 2024 fusing the blastbeat brutality of grindcore with power metal's melodic ambition — a deliberately jarring combination that keeps listeners off-balance.

Flagstaff, Arizona's Face Pulp waste no time — formed in 2022, they grind through death metal, grindcore, and hardcore punk in the most uncompromising way the high desert allows.

Out of Ashtabula, Ohio, Face Rot have been running blackened grindcore since 2013 — short, vicious songs that swap grind's antisocial energy for a colder, more nihilistic black metal atmosphere.

Wilmington, North Carolina's Faceless Muck have spent over a decade in the death/grind underground since 2010, building a catalog of low-fi brutality that feeds off the coastal South's isolation.

Eugene, Oregon's Facing Extinction have been blasting through grindcore since 2013, an act whose very name and Pacific Northwest home seem to inform a sound built around urgency and short, devastating bursts.

Orange Park, Florida's Factory of Ghouls have been running the death metal and grindcore underground since 1998, one of the region's longest-tenured acts in extreme metal's most relentless corners.