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New York's Fallout blends the ferocity of death metal with the kinetic energy of thrash, formed in 2018. The combination makes for a sound that's both technically aggressive and viscerally propulsive.
One of the more ambitious acts to emerge from the technical death metal world, Fallujah started as a deathcore band before evolving into something far more expansive — layering atmospheric textures and progressive structures over punishing heaviness. Based in Nashville, they've pushed the genre's boundaries since 2016 without abandoning its brutality.
Louisville's False takes the collision of death metal, thrash, and hardcore seriously, forging something rawer and more unpredictable than any single genre label can contain. Since 2013, they've been a fixture of the Kentucky underground.
False Entailment is an avant-garde death metal band from Slatina, Croatia, active since 2021 and pushing death metal into experimental territory. The project represents the more adventurous side of Croatian extreme metal.
Blacksburg, Virginia's False Hope channels the precision and punishment of technical death metal into songs that reward close listening. Since forming in 2016, they've focused on the surgical end of extreme music.
False in Truth is a death/thrash metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, active since 2007. Nearly two decades of death/thrash from Istanbul's underground represent a sustained commitment to extreme metal in a country where the genre faces cultural headwinds.
False Leaders is a death metal/hardcore band from Järvenpää, Finland, formed in 2023. The band merges death metal heaviness with hardcore's raw directness from the southern Finnish town.
False Mutation is a death metal band from Hattingen, Germany, formed in 2018. The band channels old-school death metal from the Ruhr valley.
Greensboro's False Prophet fuse thrash and death metal into something vicious and direct, formed in 2023 and hitting the ground running. The North Carolina scene has been producing hungry acts lately, and this band fits the mold.
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