Lakeland, Florida's Menstrual Moonshine operate in the overlapping territory between brutal death metal and grindcore where songs are measured in seconds and volume is the primary compositional tool. Formed in 2020, they lean into the Sunshine State's longstanding tradition of extreme metal extremity, weaponizing short-duration brutality and blast beats with the kind of commitment that makes the genre's most outrageous acts genuinely compelling rather than merely provocative. Florida has produced some of the most unhinged death metal in the world, and Menstrual Moonshine approach that lineage with appropriately unhinged results.

Florida's Lake County spawned Rotten Resurrection in 2024, a brutal death metal outfit arriving fully committed to the state's legendary tradition of punishing, gore-soaked extremity. Still in their early days, the band channels that Floridian death metal legacy through a particularly savage and relentless lens.

Florida's Scumfuck formed in 2017 at the intersection of brutal death metal and deathcore, weaponizing the genre's most punishing extremes into a relentless sonic assault. Their approach leans into guttural low-end devastation and breakneck tempo shifts that typify the brutal deathcore underground. Unapologetically vicious, they are a product of the deep Florida death metal tradition refracted through modern deathcore aggression.

Brutal death metal band from Cocoa Beach, Florida, formed in 2021, delivering the kind of dense, down-tuned carnage that fits squarely in Florida's long tradition of extreme metal extremity.

A Florida brutal deathcore act formed in 2022, Skin Stripper pushes the extremity dial toward the red — combining the suffocating low-end of slam-inflected brutality with deathcore's penchant for breakdown-driven punishment.

Soul Gatherer is a brutal death metal band from Orlando, Florida, formed in 2023, delivering high-intensity, technically driven brutality in a city with a long-standing tradition of extreme metal.

Surgery is a brutal death metal band from Tallahassee, Florida, formed in 2015 and operating in the tradition of Florida's storied death metal scene with an emphasis on unrelenting speed and surgical-grade heaviness.

Swamp Morgue is a slam/brutal death metal band from Panama City, Florida, formed in 2022, specializing in the down-tuned, pit-invoking heaviness and visceral grotesquerie of the American slam death underground.

Jacksonville's Trash Panda occupy the brutal end of Florida's already ferocious death metal scene, merging deathcore breakdowns with slam-influenced brutality since 2016 under a name that belies the weight of their sound.