Cypress, California's Degravation have been at it since 2012, stitching together melodic thrash, heavy metal hooks, and metalcore intensity into a sound that reflects the eclectic SoCal scene they came up in. The melodic thread running through their work gives the heavier elements emotional weight beyond pure aggression.

Seattle death metal act Degraved emerged in 2021, adding to a Pacific Northwest scene with a long track record of incubating serious, world-class extreme music. Their death metal is rooted in the genre's foundational values — punishing tempos, down-tuned menace, and riffs built to pulverize — carrying on a regional tradition that shows no signs of slowing.

Portland's Degree Absolute have been cultivating technical progressive metal since 2000, making them one of the longer-tenured acts in a city whose underground favors ambitious, genre-defying projects. Over a quarter-century of activity, they've built a sound that rewards close listening — complex time signatures, intricate arrangements, and the compositional patience that only comes with experience.

Vancouver, Washington's Dehextria formed in 2025, channeling the cold desolation of depressive black metal from the rainy, grey Pacific Northwest — a landscape that practically writes the subgenre for you. Their brand of DSBM leans into isolation and atmosphere, embracing the raw, meditative anguish at the heart of the form.

South Carolina's Dehiscence combine brutal death metal's clinical heaviness with goregrind's splatter-centric grotesquerie, a combination that arrived in 2022 with maximum visceral intent. Their surgical brutality lands somewhere between the slamming low end of brutal death and the chaotic, rapid-fire energy of goregrind — ugly by design and unapologetically so.

Portland, Oregon's Dehiscence bring death metal and grindcore together with the Pacific Northwest underground's characteristic intensity — formed in 2022 in a city that has always sustained a healthy appetite for fast, brutal, uncompromising extreme music. Short bursts of controlled violence with enough death metal structure to anchor the grindcore chaos.

Seattle sludge metal outfit Dehiscent formed in 2021, harnessing the city's damp, overcast atmosphere into the slow, grinding heaviness the subgenre demands. Sludge metal has always thrived in the Pacific Northwest, and Dehiscent fits the mold — thick, downtrodden, and patient in the way that only the heaviest music can afford to be.

Louisville, Kentucky's Dehumanize formed in 2025, entering the brutal death metal arena with the blunt-force aggression that defines a subgenre with no patience for subtlety. Louisville has produced some genuinely heavy underground acts over the years, and Dehumanize look to continue that tradition with punishing, low-end-heavy brutality aimed squarely at the gut.

Floral Park, New York's Dehumanized are a brutal death metal institution — their Metal-Archives number (2241) marks them as veterans who predate the internet-era scene, even if this current iteration formed in 2016. Rooted in the greater New York brutal death tradition that spawned acts like Suffocation, they deliver dense, technically demanding brutality with a lineage behind it.