Emerging from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 2020, Septic Chasm deal in raw, uncompromising death metal rooted in the gutter end of the American tradition. Their sound channels the grimy, cavern-drenched aesthetic that defines contemporary underground death metal. Despite their relatively recent formation, the band carries the weight and conviction of a much older act.

Septic Corpse crawled out of Frostburg, Maryland in 2024, immediately planting themselves in the goregrind end of extreme music. Their brand of grindcore prioritizes speed and grotesque texture over everything else, trading in the kind of lo-fi savagery that goregrind demands. Even as a newly formed outfit, they waste no time making their filthy intentions known.

Los Angeles death metal act Septic Fumes formed in 2023 and quickly established a reputation for dense, suffocating brutality within the sprawling Southern California underground. Their music draws on the city's long tradition of brutal and old-school death metal, filtered through a modern contempt for polish. They are a young band with an ugly, uncompromising vision.

Furious Crossover / Thrash Metal from Houston.

Los Angeles crossover outfit Septik Onslaught have been tearing up the Southern California scene since 2017, fusing hardcore aggression with the breakneck riffing of thrash metal. Their sound sits in the classic crossover tradition — short, mean songs built for pits and chaos — with a modern edge drawn from the city's diverse extreme music community. They remain one of LA's most energetic live acts in the crossover/thrash lane.

Formed in 2017 in Scarborough, Maine, Septus play traditional heavy metal with roots clearly set in the classic American and British molds. Their music leans into the kind of riff-driven, melodic songwriting that defined the genre in its foundational era, delivered with a directness that suits the no-frills New England scene they come from. They are a straightforward heavy metal band in the best sense of that description.

Ohio-based Sepulcher formed in 2024 operating at the violent intersection of death metal and grindcore. Their music combines the technicality and brutality of death metal song structures with the explosive, short-burst intensity of grindcore, resulting in something chaotic and unrelenting. As a brand-new act they have already staked out an extreme and punishing corner of the Midwestern underground.

New Brunswick, New Jersey's Sepulchromancy arrived in 2023 fusing the murky brutality of death metal with the reckless speed of thrash. Their approach recalls the classic death/thrash hybridization of the late 1980s and early 1990s underground, updated with a raw modern production sensibility. They represent a worthy continuation of the New Jersey extreme metal tradition that has long thrived in the shadow of New York.

Sepulchrum emerged from Irving, Texas in 2023 trafficking in raw black metal of the most unadorned and primitive variety. Their music strips the genre down to its coldest essentials — corrosive tremolo, lo-fi production, and an atmosphere of total hostility — rooted in the underground black metal ethos that eschews refinement by design. They are part of a quietly growing raw black metal presence in the North Texas area.