Punishing Brutal Death Metal, Ambient / Experimental from San Antonio.

Pessimist is an American blackened death metal band originating in Baltimore, Maryland in 1989, delivering a relentless fusion of death metal aggression and black metal atmosphere across three studio albums. Signing to Lost Disciple Records in 1997, the band released Cult of the Initiated (1997) and Blood for the Gods (1999), both of which charted on CMJ's Loud Rock Top 40, followed by Slaughtering the Faithful (2001). The band has been intermittently active since and is signed to Season of Mist, with a new album titled Keys to the Underworld in development.

Minneapolis's Pestifere draws from the Twin Cities' rich extreme metal tradition, blending Scandinavian melodic death metal architecture with blasting black metal ferocity.

Emerging from Ocala, Florida in 2021, Pestiferous carries the torch of Florida's storied death metal lineage with a relentless and putrid ferocity that honors the state's legendary brutality.

Pezadilla is a death metal and grindcore band from Medellín, Colombia, active since 2011. The band recorded a live session album in 2012 and appeared on the split "Purulenta simbiosis" in 2022, with an additional full-length "Medellin Morgue" noted in their discography. They operate as an independent unsigned act.

Milwaukee's Phantasm conjures death metal from the frozen Midwest, channeling the bleak severity of Wisconsin winters into riffs that lurch and devour.

Washington's Phantasm pursues classic heavy metal with an earnest devotion — big riffs, powerful vocals, and songwriting that trusts the genre's timeless bones.

Hailing from Nutley, New Jersey, Phantasm have been flying the flag for traditional heavy metal with muscular riffs and an unapologetically classic approach to the form.

Phoenix's Phantom Destrier rides into the heavy metal tradition with desert-hardened conviction — galloping rhythms, melodic leads, and a NWOBHM-inspired spirit forged under the Arizona sun.