Dayton, Ohio's Moiscus operate at the nastier end of brutal death metal and goregrind, where short, violent songs and putrid aesthetics are the entire point. Formed in 2020, they carry on the Midwest's tradition of no-frills extremity with a particular focus on gross-out visceral impact.

From the small town of McConnelsville, Ohio, this trio of black, death, and thrash metal influences has been fusing extremity since 1993, generating a caustic blend of blast-driven aggression and riff-heavy menace.

Moon Witch is a Dayton, Ohio band formed in 2021 that tears through black metal, death metal, and grindcore in roughly equal measure, trading in speed and ugliness with clear enthusiasm. Their Bandcamp handle — moonwitchusbm — signals a commitment to underground black metal aesthetics even as the grind influence pulls them toward pure noise.

Toledo, Ohio's Morgatory666 emerged from the Midwest death metal underground in 2014, channeling the genre's most visceral and unpolished impulses into direct, heavy output. Sharing a Bandcamp with the Philadelphia Morgatory points to overlapping personnel or affiliations across the underground network.

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.