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Spartanburg, South Carolina's To Avoid Confusion grind out punishing deathcore with a thick slab of straight death metal underneath, channeling the brutality of both worlds into dense, unrelenting attacks.
Anchorage's To the Depths have been one of Alaska's most persistent extreme metal acts since 2011, fusing melodic deathcore's hooky leads with a crushing low-end brutality that suits the state's remote, unforgiving character.
Detroit's Today I Wait have been operating in the bruising territory between groove metal and deathcore since 2014, combining the bone-heavy rhythmic stomp of the former with the relentless low-end punishment of the latter.
Portland, Maine solo project Tom VonLuk straddles the line between deathcore and straight death metal, arriving on the scene in 2024 with a project that leans into crushing low-end and extreme vocal extremity.
Tucson's Tombs of Kaliche have been operating at the intersection of death metal and deathcore since 2015, harnessing the heaviness of both styles to produce material rooted in the arid intensity of the Arizona underground.
Torch Jaw come from Tehachapi, California — a small desert town in the mountains south of the San Joaquin Valley — and forge a hybrid sound that draws from groove metal's rhythmic authority, deathcore's sonic brutality, and traditional heavy metal's riff-centric sensibility. Formed in 2021, they represent the kind of geographically isolated band that pushes genre boundaries out of creative necessity.
New Jersey's Torn Open, formed in 2025, brings deathcore and death metal together with the aggressive intensity typical of the genre's modern East Coast practitioners. As one of the newest bands in the state's heavy underground, they enter a New Jersey scene with well-established appetite for brutal, downtuned extremity.
Riverside, California's Torn Within, formed in 2022, plays deathcore with a death metal core, bringing the genre's characteristic low-tuned heaviness and rhythmic punishment to the Inland Empire's underground scene. The greater Los Angeles region's long deathcore infrastructure provides a strong platform for their brutality.
Pinellas Park, Florida's Tortured Soul traffic in death/thrash metal that reflects the Sunshine State's long tradition of ferocious underground extremity, blending the riff attack of thrash with death metal's darker sonic palette.
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