A California progressive death metal project formed in 2024, Sinthetik Sentienz blends the harmonic complexity and compositional ambition of progressive metal with the brutality and technical demands of modern death metal.

Dallas, Texas's Siphoned Life emerged in 2022 playing progressive death metal, joining a city with a strong technical metal tradition and bringing compositional complexity and shifting dynamics to their brand of extreme heaviness.

Dynamic Progressive Metal from Houston.

Austin, Texas band formed in 2017 operating at the intersection of progressive death metal and metalcore, combining technical compositional ambition with the rhythmic directness and emotional intensity that metalcore brings. Their name is provocative and grotesque in the tradition of death metal, belying the progressive sophistication of the music.

Nashville progressive and melodic death metal band formed in 2023, bringing a sophisticated structural approach to the genre in a city better known for country than extreme metal. Their sound combines the harmonic complexity of progressive metal with the forward momentum and melodic guitar work of the death metal tradition.

Branford, Connecticut progressive and power metal band formed in 2021, blending the melodic grandeur and technical ambition of classic progressive metal with power metal's focus on soaring dynamics and clean vocal strength. Connecticut's proximity to New England's long tradition of progressive rock and metal gives Sixth House a deep well to draw from.

Akron, Ohio's Skeptic Lens channels progressive metal's structural ambition through the heavy mid-tempo swagger of groove metal, building dynamic compositions that balance cerebral construction with visceral impact since 2021.

Merrill, Wisconsin's Skies of Obsidian has been building progressive death metal compositions since 2012 — technically ambitious yet rooted in genuine brutality, emerging from a region not typically associated with the style's more experimental end.

One of New Jersey's longest-running underground metal acts, Helmetta's Skitzo have been honing their progressive power and speed metal craft since 1985 — a band whose four decades of persistence speaks to a genuine devotion to the technical, melodic end of the genre.