Oakland's Cultural Warfare are Bay Area thrash purists who extend the region's golden-era legacy into the modern era through melodic, powerful songwriting anchored by Jacques Serrano's forceful vocals. Their 2018 debut full-length Warmageddon, produced by Juan Urteaga and released on M-Theory Audio, is a sharp, road-tested declaration of Bay Area allegiance.

Houston experimental punk. Notorious for overdubbing satirical punk vocals onto popular radio hits.

San Antonio technical death metal/deathcore. Precision brutality.

Relentless Melodic Black Metal from Brownsville.

Los Angeles duo Cultus Profano — Advorsus and Strzyga — channel pure Satanic black metal with an emphasis on furious, melodic riffing that balances ferocity and craft. Signed to Debemur Morti Productions, their albums Sacramentum Obscurus (2018) and Accursed Possession (2020) established them as one of Southern California's most formidable black metal acts.

Sherwood, Michigan's Cum Angel merged the rawness of crust punk with black metal bleakness, exploring themes of sexuality, vulnerability, and obsession through a noise-caked, lo-fi lens. The band has since split, but their recorded output remains a document of underground Michigan extremity at its most unfiltered.

Dayton, Ohio's Cum Chalice drag death metal into the sludge pit, combining the genre's grotesque imagery with the tar-thick, slow-churning weight of sludge metal. The Ohio band operates in the tradition of the Southwest Ohio extreme underground that has historically favored brutality over accessibility.

Lakeland, Florida's Cum Soaked Corpses Leaking Rectal Discharge are a two-piece goregrind duo who weaponize slamming rhythms, guttural extremity, and intentional provocation into brief, relentless bursts of brutal death metal noise. Self-described as stoned, drunk scumbags, they've released a steady stream of material including the 2023 full-length Indica Cocaine.

Nashville's Cumshot Wound are a grindy noise-worship unit who pack visceral, relentless riffs and raw, socio-political lyrical content into short, grinding blasts that blur the lines between death metal, grindcore, and metalcore. Formed in 2024 and signed to Scum City Entertainment, they quickly became one of Tennessee's most confrontational new acts.