This is a list of United States Death Metal (USDM) bands that were originally formed in the United States of America. Death metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music. It typically employs heavily distorted guitars, tremolo picking, deep growling vocals, blast beat drumming, minor keys or atonality, and complex song structures with multiple tempo changes.
A
Abscess
The Absence
Abysmal Dawn
Acheron
Acid Bath
Acid Witch
Aletheian
Angelcorpse
Animosity
Arsis
Assück
Atheist
Autopsy
B
Becoming the Archetype
Between the Buried and Me
Beyond the Sixth Seal
Black Crown Initiate
The Black Dahlia Murder
Bloodsoaked
Born of Osiris
Brain Drill
Brodequin
Broken Hope
Brujeria
Brutality
C
Caninus
Cannibal Corpse
Cannabis Corpse
Capharnaum
Cattle Decapitation
Cephalic Carnage
Circle of Dead Children
Council of the Fallen
The County Medical Examiners
Crimson Thorn
Cynic
D
Dååth
Daylight Dies
Death
Deus Invictus
Deceased
Decrepit Birth
Deeds of Flesh
Deicide
Demiricous
Dethklok
Devourment
Diabolic
Dim Mak
Disgorge
Disincarnate
Diskreet
Divine Empire
Divine Heresy
Dr. Shrinker
Dying Fetus
E
Elysia
Embalmer
Embodyment
Epidemic
Epoch of Unlight
Evoken
Exhumed
F
The Faceless
From a Second Story Window
The Funeral Pyre
Funerus
G
Ghoul
Glass Casket
Goatlord
Goatwhore
God Forbid
Goreaphobia
Graves of Valor
Guttural Secrete
H
Hatebeak
Hate Eternal
Hibernus Mortis
I
Immolation
Impaled
Impending Doom
Impetigo
Incantation
Into the Moat
J
Job for a Cowboy
Jungle Rot
K
Kaos Rising
Killing Addiction
Killing Moon
Knights of the Abyss
L
Landmine Marathon
M
Macabre
Malevolent Creation
Malignancy
The Mandrake
Massacre
Master
Misery Index
Molotov Solution
Monstrosity
Morbid Angel
Morgion
Mortal Decay
Mortician
Mutiny Within
N
Necare
Necrophagia
Nile
Nocturnus
Novembers Doom
Nuclear Death
O
Obituary
Oblivion
Odious Mortem
Oppressor
Opprobrium
Order from Chaos
Order of Ennead
Origin
Oceano
P
Pathology
Paths of Possession
Pig Destroyer
Possessed
R
The Red Chord
The Red Death
Revocation
Ripping Corpse
S
Sadistic Intent
Sadus
Sculptured
Six Feet Under
Skinless
Sons of Azrael
Soul Embraced
Stovokor
Success Will Write Apocalypse Across the Sky
Suffocation
T
Terrorizer
Thorr's Hammer
Through the Eyes of the Dead
Trap Them
U
V
Vile
Vital Remains
Voodoo Gods
W
Waking the Cadaver
Winter
Withered
Woe of Tyrants
World Under Blood
Wretched
X
Y
Z
See also
List of death metal bands
References
External links
Definition of death metal, Merriam-Webster dictionary, Quote: "a type of heavy metal music that is characterized by the use of dark, violent, or gory imagery"