Unionville, Florida's Commencement deliver death metal with the blunt force and heat of the Florida scene, rooted in a tradition that runs from Tampa through the whole state's underground. Crushing and relentless, they carry that lineage forward.

Pittsburgh's Commit Suicide combine brutal death metal's punishing low-end with grindcore's breakneck pace, producing something overwhelmingly violent and mercilessly fast. The Steel City underground runs deep in their veins.

Las Vegas post-metal and doom outfit Commonear build expansive, slow-burn soundscapes in the shadow of the Nevada desert. Their music trades the Strip's glitter for bleak, heavy atmosphere.

Waterbury, Connecticut's Communal Misery smash death metal and hardcore into each other with the fury of a band with nothing to prove and everything to destroy. Their sound carries the working-class anger of a post-industrial New England city.

Austin, Texas's Communion inhabit the slowest, heaviest end of doom and drone, letting notes decay into cavernous silence and drone into near-silence before crushing you under their weight. Funeral doom spaciousness and stoner haze combine into something monolithic.

Blackened crust/grind addressing border, religious, and governmental oppression in the El Paso region. Active 2010-2016 on Unholy Anarchy Records.

Maine's Commuted operate in the space where black metal's cold fury meets death metal's brutality, carving out something harsh and unforgiving from the remote New England wilderness. Their sound has the isolation of the state baked into it.

Dallas death metal act Comorbidity bring the Texas underground's no-nonsense brutality to a sound rooted in old-school death metal's pummeling directness. They are part of a DFW scene that has quietly sustained extreme metal for decades.

Boston's Company of Strangers blend traditional heavy metal's melodic sensibility with doom metal's weighty gloom, producing a sound that is both hook-laden and heavy. The city's rich metal heritage informs their classic approach.