Los Angeles black metal act Mortis Inanis, formed in 2015, conjure cold, misanthropic soundscapes befitting their name — 'hollow death' — with a style that emphasizes atmosphere and desolation over spectacle.

Denver newcomers Mortis Witch, formed in 2025, brew a hazy concoction of stoner and doom metal rooted in the Colorado high-altitude heavy music scene, blending fuzz-drenched riffs with slow, hypnotic doom weight.

Nashville death metal act Mortius, active since 2018, represent the Tennessee capital's underground heavy music community with a direct, meat-and-bones approach to the genre that favors crushing riffs and guttural intensity.

Seattle's Morto-Naught, formed in 2021, push blackened death metal into unconventional territory through experimental composition and unorthodox structures, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's tradition of avant-garde extremity to carve out genuinely strange sonic ground.

Jacksonville, Arkansas duo Mortua Sordes deal in blackened doom metal since their 2023 formation, pairing the bleak, dragging weight of doom with the corrosive venom of black metal — a particularly desolate sound for a relatively young Southern act.

Baltimore's Mortuaria, formed in 2025, fuse death metal's crushing density with grindcore's explosive brevity, emerging from Maryland's storied extreme metal underground with a debut that wastes no time on subtlety.

Razor-sharp Death / Thrash Metal out of Texas.

Cameron Park, California's Mortuary bring classic thrash metal intensity to the Northern California foothills since 2021, channeling old-school speed, riff precision, and a no-frills attitude toward headbanging extremity.

Kingston, Pennsylvania's Mortuary have ground out death metal in the Northeast underground since 2021, carrying the working-class heaviness of the Wyoming Valley into brutally direct extreme metal.