Providence, Rhode Island's Death Doom Thrash wear their influences as a banner rather than a disguise, threading death/doom's weight through the New England underground since 2018. The name is a manifesto: expect slow grinding heaviness with occasional bursts of thrash-driven urgency.

Indianapolis's Death Ensemble weld blackened riffing to thrash metal's kinetic momentum, earning their stripes in Indiana's underground since 2012. Their blackened thrash attack trades melody for iron-fisted aggression and cold, nihilistic atmosphere.

Knoxville, Tennessee's Death Etiquette bring technical death metal's surgical precision to a Southern rock city that rarely produces extreme metal of this caliber. Since 2022 the band has developed a complex, intricate approach where riff arrangements feel more like puzzles than conventional song structures.

Death Exclamations is a location-unknown black metal entity formed in 2020, operating at arm's length from the scene with a raw and uncompromising approach. The band's anonymity feels intentional — just a name, a Bandcamp page, and the music itself.

Dayton, Ohio's Death Fetish have been serving up brutal death metal punishment since 2020, feeding the Midwest underground with punishing slams and guttural vocals. Their approach is unflinching — purely about impact and physicality.

Portland's Death Fetishist operate at the cold, suffocating intersection of black and doom metal, cloaking slow, miserable riff progressions in a haze of dissonance and despair since 2016. Their music is patient and punishing, demanding the listener surrender to the weight.

Crushing Death Metal from Austin.

Los Angeles thrash outfit Death Force have been tearing through the sprawling SoCal metal scene since 2018, channeling the aggression of Bay Area forebears into a modern context. Fast picking, barked vocals, and unapologetically retro riff construction define their sound.

Virginia Beach's Death Harvest tend a crop of sun-scorched stoner doom, wringing heavy psych fuzz and oppressive tempos out of the coastal Virginia underground since 2022. Their riffs sprawl and crush in equal measure, conjuring images of flat farmland and burning sky.