List of American death metal bands

This is a list of United States Death Metal (USDM) bands that were originally formed in the United States. 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 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

V

 * Vile
 * Vital Remains
 * Voodoo Gods

W

 * Waking the Cadaver
 * Winter
 * Withered
 * Woe of Tyrants
 * World Under Blood
 * Wretched