1931 is a deathcore band from Galloway, Ohio, active since 2013 with three releases totaling 21 tracks. The band incorporates Spanish-language elements — tracks like "Agujero Negro" and "Suburbia" — into their crushing breakdowns and guttural delivery. Their sound reflects the diversity of Ohio's extreme metal underground.

Columbus deathcore act unleashing crushing breakdowns and guttural fury from Ohio's capital city, feeding into the state's consistently productive extreme metal pipeline.

Toledo, Ohio band spanning death metal, deathcore, and progressive metal, combining the breakdown intensity of deathcore with the technical ambition and shifting structures of progressive death.

Cleveland's Cholera straddle the line between death metal and deathcore, bringing Midwestern grit to breakdowns and blast beats alike. Their approach is direct and punishing.

Out of North Lewisburg, Ohio, Damnbuilding merges the chug-heavy punishment of deathcore with old-school death metal's murk, building a sound that is as claustrophobic as it is crushing. Since 2014, the band has been leveling expectations with brute-force heaviness.

Columbus, Ohio's Esotera channels melodic death metal's hook-driven aggression into a deathcore framework that keeps the emotional impact front and center. Formed in 2023, the band demonstrates that Columbus continues to produce heavier acts willing to balance brutality with genuine melody.

Dayton's Eternal Void smashes deathcore and groove metal into a bruising hybrid — the Ohio industrial heartland's frustration channeled into breakdown-heavy punishment since 2017.

Tiffin, Ohio's Extinction Agenda arrived in 2023 fusing brutal death metal and deathcore into something maximally heavy and deliberately relentless. The small-city Ohio origin underscores an underground work ethic — this is music built from the ground up with no expectation of easy attention.

Cleveland's Killer Whale Theory arrived in 2009 at the heavy end of deathcore, building songs with the structural weight and low-end density that the genre demands. A decade-plus into existence, they remain a fixture in Ohio's extreme underground.