Columbus, Ohio's Fade to Oblivion have been writing melodic death metal since 2013, threading European melodeath influences through a Midwestern sensibility that grounds the grandiosity in something heavier.

Portland, Texas's Fall works in melodic death metal, bringing the genre's interplay of aggression and melody to a small South Texas coastal town — a long way from the Gothenburg origins of the style but no less committed to it.

Dayton, Ohio's Fall of Babylon has been playing melodic death metal since 2023, adding melody and compositional ambition to the genre's core heaviness in a Rust Belt city that has quietly nurtured extreme metal for years.

Downers Grove, Illinois's Fall of Eden has been pursuing melodic death metal since 2014, bringing Swedish-influenced melody and riffcraft to the Chicago suburbs with the kind of sustained commitment the genre rewards.

Chicago's Fallen Empire debuted in 2024, pursuing melodic death metal's marriage of technical aggression and muscular melody within one of America's richest metal cities. Their Bandcamp handle 'newfallenempire' signals a deliberate fresh start, distinguishing them from the genre's established names.

Ruthless Folk / Melodic Death Metal from Plano.