Bay Area band Geryon blends melodic death metal's emotive sweep with metalcore's rhythmic punch, crafting songs that hit hard while still leaving room for melody. They've been honing their hybrid sound in California since 2013.

New York's Geryon pushes death metal into stranger territory, incorporating avant-garde elements that break up the brutality with dissonance and unexpected structural turns. Their music resists comfortable categorization and is all the more compelling for it.

Oklahoma City's Gestalt is a genre-agnostic wrecking ball, routing thrash, death metal, grindcore, and crossover through the same reckless engine since 2018. The parts shouldn't add up to a coherent whole — somehow they do.

St. Louis black metal act Gestalt deals in cold, unornamented darkness — stripped-down riffs and a bleak, suffocating atmosphere that owes more to second-wave austerity than modern production values. They've been haunting the Missouri underground since 2018.

Emerging from Rockport, Massachusetts in 2022, Gestation plays death metal that is methodical and crushing — the kind that builds pressure slowly before erupting in bursts of precise brutality. There's a New England grimness to their approach.

Phoenix goregrind unit Gestation (AZ) plays with biological horror as both theme and texture, piling on the gore-soaked extremity that the subgenre demands. Since 2022, they've been one of the more uncompromisingly visceral acts in the Arizona underground.

Despite the countrypolitan jab in their name, Tampa's Get Out of Nashville plays deathcore and death metal with the blunt aggression of a band that has no patience for anything polished. Since 2021, they've been a loud refusal of everything glossy.

Get Scared formed in Layton, Utah in 2008, carving a niche in the post-hardcore scene with horror-themed imagery and a sound that oscillates between gothic rock atmospherics and explosive metalcore aggression. Vocalist Nick Matthews brought a theatrical darkness to albums like 'Demons' and 'Dgd,' channeling the eerie side of the Warped Tour scene. Their willingness to embrace macabre themes and cinematic production set them apart from their more straightforward post-hardcore contemporaries.

Chicago's Geth Prime draws on classic heavy metal with a sci-fi edge baked into both the name and the ethos — songs built on sturdy riffs and clean, dramatic delivery rooted in the genre's golden era. Active since 2013, they keep the tradition alive in the Midwest.