Fresno, California's Mohler specialize in the punishing intersection of slam and brutal death metal, where percussive breakdowns and guttural vocals create an experience that's more physical punishment than musical listening. Active since 2019, they represent the Central Valley's contribution to the slam underground.

Denver's Monumental Discharge formed in 2020 and specialize in slam and brutal death metal, delivering the genre's characteristically downtuned, bowel-shaking low end and guttural vocals against a backdrop of Mile High city extremity.

Valparaiso, Indiana slam and brutal death metal act Mummydust arrived in 2021 with the genre's signature low-register gutturalism and lurching slam breakdowns, delivering the style's pulverizing essentials with focused intensity.

Oklahoma slam/brutal deathcore outfit Muramasa, named for the legendary cursed Japanese swords, has delivered dense, down-tuned devastation since 2013, leaning into the genre's most punishing vocal and rhythmic extremes.

Medford, Oregon's Mutilatrix are a fresh 2025 arrival in the slam and brutal death metal underground, stacking bowel-churning low-end slams atop the surgical gore-driven extremity the genre demands.

Las Vegas's Necrokazii hit hard with slam-inflected brutal death metal that matches the city's appetite for spectacle and excess, active since 2024. The band's pit-tested grooves carry the desert heat of the Nevada underground.

Out of Santa Ana, California, Nug have been pummeling eardrums with their brand of slam and brutal death metal since 2018. The band leans hard into bone-cracking breakdowns and guttural extremity, placing them squarely in the Southern California tradition of no-frills, bowel-loosening brutality.

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.