San Francisco's Shotgun Facelift take the experimental and technical end of deathcore into genuinely unpredictable territory, founded in 2020 and building a sound that treats the genre's heaviness as raw material for something far more dissonant and architecturally unusual.

Slamadeus are a Palmdale, California band formed in 2021, marrying the brutality of slam death metal and deathcore into music that treats heaviness as both punchline and end goal. The name is a sly classical reference that belies a sound built entirely on low frequencies and blunt force.

Soma Ras are a Sacramento, California band formed in 2012 who fuse blackened death metal with deathcore elements, combining blast-beat intensity and guttural heaviness with the breakdowns and structural extremity associated with modern heavy music.

Los Angeles progressive death metal and deathcore act Sporemacide formed in 2025, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the heaviness of death metal and deathcore.

Formed in Riverside, California in 2002, Suicide Silence became one of the defining bands of the deathcore movement under the tenure of vocalist Mitch Lucker. Their 2007 Century Media debut The Cleansing brought the genre significant mainstream attention, followed by No Time to Bleed (2009) and The Black Crown (2011). Lucker died in November 2012 following a motorcycle accident; the band continued with new vocalist Hernan 'Eddie' Hermida and is frequently cited alongside Whitechapel, Thy Art is Murder, and Job for a Cowboy as one of deathcore's founding pillars.

Suntorn are a brutal death metal and deathcore band from San Diego, California, formed in 2016, unleashing punishing down-tuned brutality that combines the hyper-technical slaughter of brutal death metal with the breakdowns and heaviness of deathcore.

Modesto, California act founded in 2015 that blends deathcore brutality with groove metal's mid-tempo churn, delivering a heavy sound built on syncopated riffs and punishing low-end.