Long Island, New York thrash/death metal band formed around 2009, dealing in themes of insanity, disease, and violence before splitting up.

Long Island, New York death metal and hardcore hybrid that emerged in 2014, blending the brute force of death metal with the urgent, confrontational energy of hardcore.

Buffalo death metal act formed in 2013, bringing the cold, brutal spirit of the upstate New York underground to bear on riff-driven, uncompromising extreme metal.

New York brutal death and slam act formed in 2020, built on the genre's signature down-tuned groove and guttural vocal attack, representing the thriving East Coast slam underground.

New York's Castigate operate firmly in brutal death metal territory, prioritizing gore-drenched guttural vocals and relentlessly technical riffing over any melodic concession.

New York old-school death metal band whose churning, mid-paced brutality and ferocious vocals flip the genre's typical subject matter toward themes of empowerment, documented on their Dark Descent Records releases.

Catastrophic from Nashville, NY operates in the realm of straightforward, punishing death metal with an underground ethos and no-frills approach. Their sound is rooted in early 90s death metal conventions — down-tuned guitars, guttural vocals, and blunt force production.

Cendiate is a death metal band from New York City, blending technical riff structures with aggressive, downtuned brutality, drawing from both the precision of technical death metal and the raw aggression of the New York underground.

Chaos Enigma is a New York-based project blending progressive and melodic death metal, known for unrestrained genre experimentation that draws on the technical side of extreme metal. The band is connected to other New York metal acts and has released anniversary re-recordings of early material.