Moravia, New York's Tomb Relic grind out their brand of death-grind with rural underground intensity, having formed in 2022 to deliver compact, punishing material that draws from both death metal's darkness and grindcore's velocity.

Spokane, Washington's Tomb Ripper occupy an unusual corner of extreme metal, splicing death metal and powerviolence together to create chaotic, high-intensity material that has no patience for slow moments.

Westhampton, Massachusetts's Tombstone Piledriver have been pummeling audiences with death-grind since 2009, combining the genre's characteristic speed and ugliness in material that captures the no-budget extremity of the New England underground.

Savannah, Georgia's Torment Trap fuses death metal and grindcore into punishing, short-form bursts of extremity, formed in 2021. The band applies grind's economy of violence to death metal's heavier low-end, consistent with a southern underground that has long favored no-frills brutality.

Detroit's Tormentous, formed in 2022, blends death metal and grindcore with the ruthless efficiency you'd expect from a city shaped by industrial heaviness and a gritty DIY underground. Their sound is compact and brutal, built for maximum impact in minimum time.

Buffalo, New York's Torture Agenda smashes together grindcore ferocity, speed metal momentum, and crust punk's D-beat-rooted rawness into a chaotic, high-velocity assault formed in 2021.

Warren, Michigan's Torture Pig formed in 2023, mining the goregrind and brutal death metal underground for maximum grotesque impact with a name as blunt as the music it represents.

Olney, Maryland's Tortured grind at the intersection of brutal death metal and grindcore, delivering high-velocity savagery that leans on blastbeat aggression and guttural brutality in equal measure.

Philadelphia grindcore institution Total Fucking Destruction have been a fixture of the underground since 2007, known for their politically charged, intellectually provocative approach to a genre more often associated with pure sonic brutality.