Kansas City's Portrait of God arrived in 2024 swinging the full arsenal of goregrind, slam, and brutal death metal — grotesque, low-tuned, and utterly uninterested in anything that isn't maximally crushing. The name's irreverent blasphemy sets the tone: this is a project that delights in provocation and delivers the heaviness to back it up.

A brand-new brutal death metal act out of North Carolina, Priapism launched in 2025 with a focus on the most extreme end of the slam spectrum — dense, down-tuned riffs colliding with percussive breakdowns designed to flatten audiences. Even at this early stage they're working within a tradition that prizes physicality and blunt-force impact above all else. One to watch as they develop their catalog.

Chicago's Priapism arrived in 2025 as a brutal death and slam outfit channeling the city's long history of underground extremity into something distinctly punishing. Rooted in the collision of slam's rhythmic brutality and death metal's technical savagery, the band wastes no time with subtlety. Their Bandcamp presence signals a project already taking shape with serious intent.

The name is a provocation and so is the music — Propitious Vegetation from Unionville, Tennessee formed in 2018 with a foundation in slam and brutal death metal before evolving their approach toward more varied death metal territory. The band's rural Tennessee origins feel at odds with the cosmopolitan brutality of the slam genre they helped represent, and that tension between place and genre is part of what makes them interesting.

Devastating Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Corpus Christi, Texas / Kansas / New Mexico.

Ripping Slam / Brutal Death Metal from Livingston.

Green Bay, Wisconsin's Putrilence is a very new act formed in 2024 that straddles goregrind and slam/brutal death metal — their Bandcamp handle putrilenceslam makes the priority clear. The band's Metal Archives genre description shows an evolution already in progress, moving from gore-influenced death toward the heavier, more structured brutality of slam.

Denver's Putrisinturnitus formed in 2024, playing a slam-heavy hybrid of brutal death metal and deathcore that reflects the genre's ongoing crossover appeal in the Rocky Mountain scene. Their Bandcamp handle putrisslam makes their aesthetic allegiance plain, and their Denver base puts them in an increasingly active hub for brutal metal.