Ironton, Ohio's Titanosauria are a 2025 slam and brutal death metal project with prehistoric appetites — dense, low-tuned, and devoted to the maximally heavy end of the spectrum where breakdowns hit like extinction-level events.

Based in Coldwater, Ohio, Toluca Lake push melodic death metal into stranger territory, weaving experimental textures into their song structures to produce something more unsettling than the genre's traditional melodic fare.

Greenville, Ohio's Tomb Perfume arrived in 2024 with a death-grind approach that prizes speed and grime equally, suggesting a band more interested in maximum ugliness than technical precision.

Columbus, Ohio's Tomb Sentinel blend death metal brutality with hardcore's stripped-down aggression, having formed in 2021 to produce material that favors blunt impact over technicality in one of the Midwest's more active underground communities.

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Ohio brutal death metal and grindcore act formed in 2020, dealing in short, violent bursts of distorted noise with the surgical precision of death metal riffing beneath the chaos. Their name does not oversell the filth.

Progressive death metal band from Toledo, Ohio, active since 2013, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the aggression and heaviness of death metal.

Cleveland's Vicar Blood arrived in 2025 dragging the rot-soaked tradition of Midwest death metal behind them like a corpse. Unholy in name and uncompromising in execution, they channel the rust-belt grimness of their city into suffocating, grave-deep brutality.

Columbus, Ohio grindcore and death metal band formed in 2016, fusing the genre's velocity and crust punk's anarchic rawness with death metal's low-end devastation. Rooted in Columbus's scrappy DIY underground, Voice of Crows produce music with both political sharpness and physical force, treating brevity and brutality as equally essential tools.