Ohio's Morgue Dweller emerged in 2022 at the intersection of death metal and goregrind, specializing in the kind of grotesque, fast, and filthy material that both genres' most devoted fans demand. Their goregrind influence adds a particularly absurdist horror-movie dimension to the death metal foundation.

Toledo, Ohio's Morkast play progressive death metal with a sharp focus on structure and technical craft since 2019, part of a broader wave of Midwest bands injecting cerebral ambition into the extremity of death metal.

Ohio brutal death metal outfit Mortuary Ghoul, active since 2020, specialize in the genre's most pulverizing and grotesque end — slamming rhythms, guttural vocals, and a relentless devotion to brutality from deep in the Midwest underground.

Cleveland, Ohio's Muciferous are a 2024 goregrind and death metal project that leans hard into biological horror, piling up suffocating riffs and blastbeats in the tradition of the most viscerally repulsive extreme metal the underground has to offer.

Cleveland death metal band Mulciber emerged in 2022 with a straight-ahead brutality that fits the Rust Belt city's no-nonsense approach to extreme metal, emphasizing punishing riffs over ornamentation.

Dayton, Ohio's Murderman traffic in brutal death metal and goregrind, piling on guttural extremity with the kind of single-minded dedication that defines the most uncompromising end of Ohio's underground. Formed in 2020, they operate in a city with deep roots in both punk and metal.

Cleveland, Ohio's Mutated Sex Organ came together in 2022 to play goregrind-inflected death metal and grindcore with the irreverence and gore-obsessed imagery that define the genre's most uncompromising wing. They fit naturally into Cleveland's long history of extreme and underground metal weirdness.

Cleveland, Ohio's Mutilation Barbecue serve up crude, foul-tempered death metal with the grimy sensibility the name implies, keeping things filthy and uncompromising since their 2021 formation.

Toledo, Ohio death metal act Mutilatred have been grinding out meat-and-potatoes death metal since 2014, favoring down-tuned brutality and blunt force over technical ornamentation.