Converse, Texas's Esophagus Rot plies slam death metal with the porcine heaviness the subgenre demands — bowel-deep gutturals, caveman-slow breakdowns, and riffs designed to pulverize before they progress. Formed in 2020, the band stakes its claim in San Antonio's surrounding underground with pure, unadorned brutality.

Los Angeles slam outfit Estrogenized crush with grotesque, bowel-shaking brutality in the tradition of West Coast goregrind excess. Since 2022 they have been a reliable source of chest-caving slams and guttural vocal punishment.

Binghamton's Face of Korruption arrived in 2023 with a focus on the most extreme end of death metal — slam and brutal death metal that prioritizes heaviness above all else.

Lowell, Massachusetts's Faceless Enemy started in 2022 as brutal deathcore before pivoting toward slam and brutal death metal — an evolution toward pure extremity with no interest in accessibility.

Philadelphia's Facial Fracture launched in 2020 squarely in the slam and brutal death metal tradition, delivering the kind of utterly crushing, low-tuned savagery that the genre demands.

Pennsylvania's Gangrenous Flesh Consumption go all the way down with slam-inflected brutal death metal that prioritizes maximum heaviness above everything else. Since 2021, they've been stacking breakdowns and guttural savagery in one of the East Coast's most fertile extreme metal ecosystems.

Freshly formed in 2025 out of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Gash Mallet arrived swinging with slam and brutal death metal at its most blunt and physical. The project joins a growing wave of Pacific Northwest bands pushing the genre's most extreme limits.

Philadelphia's Geisha Dissection specialize in the pummeling intersection of slam and brutal death metal, a style they have pursued with single-minded focus since forming in 2019. Slow breakdowns and guttural extremity define their approach.

Named after the dungeon-crawling RPG monster, Portland's Gelatinous Cube have been delivering slam and brutal death metal since 2016 with the slow, all-consuming menace the name implies. Northwest brutality with a knowing wink.