New York's Geryon pushes death metal into stranger territory, incorporating avant-garde elements that break up the brutality with dissonance and unexpected structural turns. Their music resists comfortable categorization and is all the more compelling for it.

Queensbury, New York's Girthquake channel death and thrash metal into a sound that's simultaneously old-school in its riff vocabulary and aggressive in its forward momentum. One of three unrelated bands sharing this name, they hold their own on the strength of pure speed and spite.

New York's Glorious Depravity wears its death metal allegiances without apology — riff-forward, brutal, and unapologetically ugly in the ways that matter. Since 2018 they've been one of the state's reliable purveyors of the form.

New York's Goat Penis occupy the furthest extreme of slam and brutal death, compressing deathcore breakdowns, gutturals, and grind-adjacent blasting into one relentless assault. Formed in 2022, they wear their ugliness as a badge of honor.

Albany, New York's Goblinectomy apply surgical brutality to their brutal death metal, surgically excising anything soft or restrained from their compositions. Formed in 2022, they are blunt, precise, and relentlessly heavy.