Brooklyn's Shredded, formed in 2018, deliver New York death metal with the borough's characteristic bluntness — direct, punishing, and rooted in the old-school death tradition that New York City's underground has nurtured for decades.

Merrick, New York's Shredded bridge heavy metal and metalcore, the Long Island outfit drawing on both the traditional metal riffing of their region and the modern extremity of metalcore to carve out a hybrid sound since 2018.

Little Rock, Arkansas's Shredded Corpse trace their roots back through grindcore into death metal, the band's evolution reflecting a gradual shift toward slower, more deliberate brutality while retaining the extremity of their earliest material formed in 2025.

Youngsville, North Carolina's Shredistic, formed in 2019, pursue progressive metal with an emphasis on technical musicianship and compositional ambition, their work reflecting a dedication to expanding the genre's structural possibilities outside major metropolitan scenes.

Shriek! for Death fuse death metal's guttural brutality with thrash's riff-driven velocity, the US-based act formed in 2016 building on the classic crossover between these genres that has generated some of extreme metal's most ferocious material.

San Diego's Shrieking, formed in 2025, operate in the atmospheric and depressive wing of black metal, crafting bleak, suffocating soundscapes that lean into introspection and emotional desolation over aggression.

Spokane, Washington's Shrieks of the Impaled have navigated blackened death metal since 2012, combining the atmospheric menace of black metal with death metal's raw brutality in material that reflects the Pacific Northwest's fertile underground extreme scene.

Highland Charter Township, Michigan's Shrine of Broken Glass, formed in 2021, blend melodic black metal sweep with deathcore's crushing low-end architecture, constructing a layered and aggressive hybrid that pushes both genres toward their outer edges.

Chicago's Shrine of Flesh merge deathcore and death metal into a dense, pit-ready assault, the band's Illinois roots feeding into a sound that reflects Chicago's long history of producing technically demanding and physically punishing extreme music since 2015.