Svn.Seeker is a Bristol, Connecticut melodic death metal band formed in 2021, combining the hook-laden melodies and harmonic sensibility of the Gothenburg tradition with the aggression of American death metal.

Swallowed by Apathy is a progressive/melodic death metal band from Newark, Ohio, formed in 2011, merging technically ambitious arrangements with melodic hooks drawn from the Scandinavian death metal tradition.

Swelling Repulsion is a progressive melodic death metal band from Fort Collins, Colorado, formed in 2024, blending technical riffing and complex song structures with melodic death metal aggression.

Melodic deathcore band from Ocala, Florida, formed in 2022, combining the hook-driven melody of melodic death metal with the breakdowns and vocal extremity characteristic of modern deathcore.

Dallas folk/melodic death metal band formed in 2014, merging Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal with folk elements to craft an adventurous and epic-leaning sound rooted in the Texas metal underground.

Stockton, California act formed in 2011 that blends technical and melodic death metal, combining intricate fretwork with the harmonic sensibilities of the Gothenburg school to produce a sophisticated and aggressive sound.

Systematic Failure is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Yreka, California, formed in 2017, blending the melodic sensibility and twin-guitar harmonies of melodic death metal with the rhythmic intensity of metalcore.

Formed in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2000, The Agony Scene emerged from the Christian metalcore underground, initially drawing comparisons to Zao and Overcome before signing with Solid State Records. Their Roadrunner Records debut The Darkest Red (2005) broadened their audience with a punishing metalcore sound threaded with melodic death metal riffing and vocalist Mike Williams' raw delivery. The band released Get Damned on Century Media in 2007, went dormant for years, and returned with Tormentor in 2018 before announcing a fifth album in 2025.

New Hampshire's The Antioch Antioxidant Accident are as unwieldy in sound as in name — an experimental melodic death/thrash metal act formed in 2015 that subjects the genre's mechanics to deliberate derangement, bending melodeath hooks and thrash riffs through strange structural angles. Their irreverent approach treats metal's conventions as raw material to be reassembled in improbable configurations.