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.

New York death metal outfit Secrecy have been carving out their corner of the underground since 2014, delivering the kind of dense, uncompromising brutality the state's metal scene has long been known for. Their approach favors heaviness over accessibility, rooting itself in the cavernous traditions of American death metal without apology.

Serpentine Path is a doom and death metal band formed in New York in 2011, built around all three members of the cult doom act Unearthly Trance together with Tim Bagshaw, a founding member of Electric Wizard and Ramesses, and later augmented by Stephen Flam of New York doom-death legends Winter. The project's sound leaned toward a slow, crushing death-doom approach heavier and more deliberate than any of the members' previous bands. The band released a self-titled debut in 2012 and followed with Emanations in 2014 before going on hiatus in 2016, with Bagshaw shifting focus to With the Dead.

Severed is a New York metalcore band with roots stretching back to 1980, making them one of the longer-standing acts in the genre's history. They blend aggression and structure in the metalcore mold, drawing on decades of East Coast heavy music tradition.

New York's Shadow of Demise have been at it since 2006, fusing the groove-forward chug of groove metal with outright death metal brutality into a sound that's both punishing and propulsive. Their long tenure gives them a road-worn authority that newer bands are still working toward.

New York's Shiro-Ishii — named for the Imperial Japanese Army Unit 731 commander — combines technical death metal's surgical precision with grindcore's convulsive brutality, making for a relentlessly punishing and disturbing listen since 2018.

Brooklyn's Shredded, formed in 2018, deliver New York death metal with the borough's characteristic bluntness — direct, punishing, and rooted in the old-school death tradition that New York City's underground has nurtured for decades.

Staten Island progressive thrash/death metal act formed in 2023 that evolved toward deathcore, mapping a trajectory from technical complexity toward crushing modern heaviness — a New York City band navigating the intersection of precision and brutality.

Death metal act from Beacon, New York, formed in 2018, crafting dense and grim material from a small Hudson Valley city with an outsized underground metal presence.