Santa Clarita, California death metal and grindcore band that has been grinding since 2014, adding to the San Fernando Valley's underground extreme metal presence.

New Jersey death metal outfit featuring former members of brutal death metal band Digested Flesh, releasing their debut Gateway to Pestilence in November 2013.

Thrash metal band from Covington, Georgia with tracks including King KroK and Black Infusion, delivering no-frills thrash to the Southern underground.

Bacteremia is a Brutal Death Metal band from Medellín, Colombia, formed in 2006 and signed to Permeated Records. They released their debut full-length "Cerebral Wrong Settings" in 2013, followed by "Furiously Reduced" in 2017, a nine-track album exploring themes of mankind, death, and pathology.

Boston death metal outfit formed in 2015 by members of thrash band Razormaze and brutal death outfit Scattered Remnants, drawing on the technical influence of Gorguts and Carcass. Their 2023 full-length Anthropogenic Ruin builds on the angular dissonance introduced on their 2016 debut EP Agnosia of Omens.

Brooklyn death metal and cybergrind project formed in 2022, combining extreme metal aggression with digital noise textures across releases including The Demo and the full-length Unborn 2 Die.

Los Angeles crossover/thrash and grindcore band formed in 1989 by Keith Aazami and Dirk Rogers, maintaining a relentless output across three-plus decades that includes Lynch the Weirdo (2004), Worship of Fear (2015), Taught to Fear (2022), and Decency Anomaly (2025).

Orlando progressive and sludge metal band active from around 2013, blending slow-burning sludge weight with progressive song structures in the fertile Florida extreme metal underground.

Oakland sludge metal and crust band active from around 2013, fusing the abrasive weight of sludge with the rawer urgency of crust punk.