Carlsbad, California's Mysidia have been crafting melodic death metal since 2013, combining technically precise guitar work with melodic hooks and the kind of song-oriented songwriting that distinguishes the Gothenburg tradition from more brutalizing strains of the genre.

A death metal band out of Gainesville, Florida — home to one of the country's most storied underground metal communities — Mysophilia have been trading in grisly, filth-obsessed brutality since 2012, with a sound rooted firmly in the gory end of the American death metal spectrum.

Niles, Michigan's Mysophilia take the blackened thrash approach: vicious riffing informed by the second wave's rawness combined with the velocity and aggression of old-school thrash, producing a scrappy, venomous sound since their 2012 formation.

Ripping Melodic Black / Death Metal from Houston.

Active since 1996 out of Whittier, California, Mysteria occupy the traditional end of heavy metal and hard rock, favoring classic song structures, melodic vocal lines, and the timeless guitar-driven approach of the genre's pre-extreme era.

Operating out of Laredo since 2013, Mysteria Inframundi deal in black metal steeped in occult and underworld imagery, pushing a dark and ritualistic atmosphere informed by the borderland geography and isolation of their South Texas surroundings.

Atlanta's Mysterian fuse neoclassical composition with darkwave sensibility, carving out an unconventional space within metal's broader orbit since 2019 — elaborately arranged and atmospheric, with classical structure informing cinematic, shadowy soundscapes.

Charlotte, North Carolina's Mysteriarch have been practicing symphonic black metal since 2004, combining blizzard-fast tremolo riffing and shrieked vocals with elaborate orchestral arrangements that push the grandiose, cathedral-scale ambition of the symphonic subgenre.

Savage Goregrind from Houston.