Rochester, New York's Kalibas have been a shape-shifting force in extreme metal since 2003, starting as a brutal death/grindcore act before incorporating black metal into their arsenal. Over twenty years they've grown into something genuinely hard to classify, which is precisely their appeal.

Also hailing from New York, Kevorkianesque take the brutal death metal template and push it to its logical extremes — relentless, pulverizing, and technically accomplished in the service of maximum punishment since 2016.

Cohoes, New York's Malicious Offense are brutal death metal newcomers who arrived in 2024 to make noise in the Capital Region's underground. Short on subtlety and long on punishment, they go straight for the throat.

Long Island's Mangled have been punishing listeners with brutal death metal since 2006, carrying on the New York area's tradition of uncompromising extremity without apology. Dense, technical, and brutally efficient.

A New York outfit occupying the furthest reaches of slam and brutal death metal, Mnemonic Wetbrain Syndrome have been piling on low-tuned, guttural punishment since 2008. Their sound sits squarely in the pit-dwelling tradition of slam — percussive breakdowns, goring riffs, and vocal extremity taken to its logical end.

New York's Molested Nun, formed in 2023, work in the brutal death/goregrind space where provocation and extremity are inseparable from the aesthetic — anti-religious imagery and punishing sonics go hand in hand. Despite being a young act, they slot directly into New York's long history of no-apologies extreme metal.

Albany, New York's Mucopus are one of the more enduring acts in brutal death metal and grindcore, combining sub-basement tuned brutality with grind's sheer velocity since 1998 in a relentless assault that has defined their city's extreme underground presence.

Long Island's Pyrexia are veterans of the brutal death metal underground dating back to 1993, known for their suffocating low-end density and punishing groove that helped define the New York brutal death sound, with their catalog spanning early extremity to mid-period death-groove experiments.

Endicott, New York's Scabiasis are a brutal death metal act formed in 2024, arriving fully committed to the genre's most punishing conventions — blast beats, downtuned guitars, and guttural extremity in the tradition of the New York brutality scene. Young and freshly hatched, their chosen genre name (derived from a parasitic skin infection) signals exactly the kind of medical-horror aesthetic that brutal death metal has always favored.