Las Vegas's Excretory Engorgement have been in the brutal death metal trenches since 2014, proving that the desert city harbors a dedicated underground beneath the glittering resort surface. Their extreme, gore-inflected brutality is part of a long tradition of American BDM bands that find ugliness as an aesthetic virtue, and they deliver it with committed intensity.

Excruciator formed in Beaverton, Oregon in 2009 as an explicit reaction against metalcore trends in the Portland scene, drawing instead from the 1980s speed and heavy metal traditions of bands like Judas Priest and Motörhead. Their debut full-length Devouring (2011) was released on Heavy Artillery/Earache Records and recorded with a lineup that included guitarist/vocalist Chris Birkle, and the follow-up Fighting for Evil (2017) was produced by Toxic Holocaust's Joel Grind at Falcon Recording Studios in Portland. The band briefly went on hiatus between 2013 and 2015 before regrouping for additional releases.

Houston, Texas's Execrable Divinity have been representing the brutal death metal underground since 2012, part of a city with a surprisingly deep history in extreme metal. Their sound is relentlessly heavy — dense, slam-adjacent brutality rooted in the American BDM tradition, with a name that signals their comfort operating at the genre's most extreme and blasphemous edges.

Devastating Brutal Death Metal from Colorado Springs, Colorado (early); Houston, Texas (later).

Santa Ana, California's Execute are a brand-new death metal outfit formed in 2024, emerging from the deep pool of extreme metal talent in the Orange County and greater Los Angeles area. Their 714-branded Bandcamp handle signals local pride and scene loyalty, placing them squarely in the dense Southern California underground.

Long Beach, New York's Execute Order 66 have been merging melodic death metal's twin-guitar melodicism with metalcore's breakdown-driven structure since 2011. Their name announces a certain irreverence, but their music is earnest in its hybridization of European melodeath aesthetics with the American metalcore tradition that shaped the Long Island scene.

Roseburg, Oregon's Execution at Hand emerged in 2017 blending the mechanized brutality of deathcore with death metal's more traditional extremity. Coming from a small southern Oregon city far from the Portland scene, they bring an isolated, unpretentious heaviness to a genre that tends toward urban concentration, and the contrast suits them.

Washington State's Execution Hour play crossover thrash with a hard-edged punk backbone and classic thrash velocity, active since 2020. Operating in a state with a strong punk and hardcore lineage, they channel the tradition of bands that never quite decided whether they were more punk or more metal and ultimately chose both.

Boston's Executioner are a thrash metal outfit formed in 2019 that draws from the deep well of Massachusetts's historic metal scene, a city that gave the world bands like Slapshot, Wargasm, and Kilslug. Their approach is rooted in classic American thrash — driving, riff-forward, and confrontational in the tradition that the Northeast has always done with particular ferocity.