Savage Death / Black Metal with Punk influences from Texas (early); San Diego, California (later).

Richmond, Virginia's Skincrawler merges death metal, grindcore, and hardcore into a short, violent statement of intent since 2021 — the kind of crossover aggression that fits naturally into Richmond's fierce and historically confrontational underground scene.

A California death metal outfit with deep roots in hardcore, Skinfather (formed 2012) carve out a punishing middle ground between the two genres — delivering crushing riffs and pit-ready aggression that owes as much to the beatdown scene as it does to old-school death metal.

Rochester, New York's Skingraft emerged in 2023 as a death metal act built on the upstate underground, channeling the brutal, stripped-down intensity that defines the region's DIY metal tradition.

A U.S. black metal project active since 2022, Skinhunger operates with the anonymity and rawness common to the American underground — bleak, minimalist compositions that lean into atmosphere over accessibility.

Out of Bakersfield, California, Skinjob have been grinding out death metal since 2012 in a city not known for its metal scene, which gives their output a flinty, self-sufficient character that sets them apart from their coastal counterparts.

Skinlab formed in San Francisco, California in 1994, carving out a groove-heavy sound that bridged the aggression of Bay Area thrash with the downtempo churn of early 1990s groove metal and the emerging nu-metal movement. The band's early albums Disembody: The New Flesh and Bound, Gagged and Blindfolded were released with assistance from Robb Flynn of Machine Head, who helped them access the European touring circuit. After disbanding in 2003 and reforming multiple times, Skinlab continued releasing material through the 2000s and 2010s, including The Scars Between Us (2009) and the single Flesh Wounds (2024) on WURMgroup.

Hailing from Glens Falls, New York, Skinless are one of the defining forces of American brutal death metal — a band that built their reputation on relentlessly heavy riffs, guttural extremity, and over two decades of uncompromising output.

Fort Collins, Colorado's Skinned have been in the brutal death metal game since 1998, making them one of the longer-running outfits in the Mountain West underground — characterized by the kind of thick, punishing riffs that come from years of refinement.