Northumberland County, Pennsylvania slam/brutal death metal and goregrind band taking their name from the 1980 horror film and operating in the extreme underground.

Brutal death metal band from McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, delivering the genre's characteristic combination of blast beats, guttural vocals, and heavily downtuned riffing.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania brutal death metal act delivering the grinding heaviness, blasting percussion, and guttural extremity that define the American brutal death underground.

Johnstown, Pennsylvania's Chronic Decay operates in the brutal death and deathcore space, delivering thick, down-tuned breakdowns alongside extreme metal riffing rooted in the genre's Pennsylvania underground traditions. Their approach favors brute force over subtlety.

Pennsylvania brutal death/grind veterans Circle of Dead Children have been one of the most extreme and uncompromising acts in American underground metal since the mid-1990s. Their hyper-blasting, caustic assault blurs the line between brutal death metal and grindcore with relentless ferocity.

Pennsylvania brutal death metal unit Cirrhosis grind through dense, low-tuned punishment with relentless double-bass precision and guttural vocal devastation. They keep the approach surgical and the results crushing.

Pittsburgh's Commit Suicide combine brutal death metal's punishing low-end with grindcore's breakneck pace, producing something overwhelmingly violent and mercilessly fast. The Steel City underground runs deep in their veins.

Philadelphia brutal death metal band delivering bone-crushing heaviness and guttural extremity from the City of Brotherly Love. Dense, technical, and relentlessly punishing.

Elliottsburg, Pennsylvania outfit specializing in the most physically oppressive end of brutal and slam death metal, where breakdowns feel less like transitions and more like cave-ins. Their music is designed to destroy whatever room it's played in.