Bakersfield, California slam/brutal death metal band formed in 2024, a new entry in the West Coast extreme metal underground.

Sacramento brutal death and slam act formed in 2024, pursuing the genre's most visceral extremes through crushing breakdowns and low-register sonic violence.

San Diego, California brutal death metal and slam act formed in 2003, known for guttural vocals, down-tuned chugging riffs, and the punishing rhythmic intensity central to the slam subgenre; frequent comparisons to Devourment and Disgorge.

Palm Desert, California brutal death and slam metal project known for grotesque sonic extremity and experimental tendencies. Cytoplasm pushes the outer limits of brutal death metal with unconventional, visceral compositions from the California desert.

Corona, California's Dismembered Engorgement have been plumbing the depths of slam and brutal death metal since 2016, bringing the Inland Empire's underground ugliness to its logical extreme. Dense slabs of mid-paced slamming brutality anchor their sound, the kind of suffocating low-end heaviness that Southern California's brutal death scene has long perfected.

San Diego's slam and brutal death metal unit Enucleation pulverize with massive breakdowns and guttural extremity, thriving in a city with a deep tradition of underground brutality since 2025.

Los Angeles slam outfit Estrogenized crush with grotesque, bowel-shaking brutality in the tradition of West Coast goregrind excess. Since 2022 they have been a reliable source of chest-caving slams and guttural vocal punishment.

Oxnard, California's Kermz specialize in the most physically punishing end of the death metal spectrum — slam-heavy and brutal, with song structures built to maximize impact and bodily devastation since 2014.

Los Angeles' Manipulated Mutilation have occupied the brutal end of the death metal spectrum since 2009, blending slam's bone-snapping groove with the surgical extremity of technical deathcore. The result is visceral, precise, and entirely uncompromising.