Greenville, South Carolina's Garotte applies technical death metal's surgical precision to compositions that are as intricate as they are brutal. Since 2016, the band has honed a mechanically tight sound that rewards repeated listens with new layers of complexity.

Baltimore's technical death metal crew Garuda shares its mythological name with the Fort Worth project but delivers a distinctly different beast — intricate, precise, and rooted in technical death metal's most demanding traditions. Formed in 2018 in one of the East Coast's most fertile extreme metal scenes.

Chicago's Gigan are among the most disorienting forces in progressive and technical death metal, dismantling conventional song structure in favor of alien, cosmos-eating compositions that feel genuinely unknowable. Since 2008, they've existed in a category largely of their own invention.

San Antonio's God Butcher combine technical death metal precision with the savagery of grindcore, producing music designed to overwhelm as quickly as possible. Active since 2023, they're among the most ferocious new arrivals in the Texas underground.

Heavy Symphonic Deathcore out of Texas.

Kansas City's Gourmand approach progressive technical death metal with the conceptual ambition the name implies since 2017 — feasting on harmonic complexity and rhythmic density, building compositions that demand attention and reward it.

Baltimore's Greylotus represent the cutting edge of progressive deathcore, threading technical precision and unusual compositional structures through the genre's crushing heaviness. Since 2022, they've been one of the more ambitious young voices in an increasingly sophisticated scene.