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A Night at the Chalet is a deathcore band from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, active since 2010 with two releases totaling 18 tracks. The band's music features horror-driven themes with tracks like "Disgusting Images of Reality" and "Forever Entombed Amongst the Catacombs," delivered through relentless breakdowns and guttural vocals. Their name — evoking a cozy retreat turned nightmare — captures the band's juxtaposition of the mundane and the horrific.
A Night in the Abyss merges death metal, deathcore, symphonic metal, and technical death metal from Brighton since 2015, creating an ambitiously broad sound from the seaside city. Their four-genre fusion produces compositions of remarkable scope and intensity.
A deathcore band from Herford in North Rhine-Westphalia, A Plumbers Nightmare were founded in 2007 and built a festival presence over their active years. Their releases include the Demo(n) tape (2008), the Bloodwinger EP (2010), and the Medea EP (2012), delivering the genre's signature low-tuned brutality with a six-piece lineup.
A deathcore band from Belém, Pará, in the Amazon region of northern Brazil, formed in 2014 with a lineup of Leonan Ferreira (vocals), Igor Sampaio and Vinicius Carvalho (guitars), Marcos Saraiva (bass), and Luciano Camara (drums). Their discography spans a decade of independent releases including A Red Nightmare (2014), Thousand Blind Eyes (2020), and Through Vile Lens (2024), with themes of pain, social critique, and suffering delivered through technical and aggressive deathcore.
Tampa, Florida deathcore project. The geopolitical name brings Soviet-era upheaval to the Sunshine State's breakdown-heavy underground.
A deathcore outfit from Mühldorf am Inn, Germany, formed in 2023, A Rising Chapter blend brutal heaviness with catchy, partly harmonious melodies to carve out a distinct identity within the genre. Their releases include the Forlorn Hope EP and the full-length I N A N I M A T E, showcasing a band intent on standing out through dynamic songwriting rather than pure aggression.
Crushing Deathcore out of Texas.
Sacramento deathcore project whose name evokes cinematic violence in the City of Light. Dramatic extremity from California's capital.
Chicago deathcore project that borrows its name from the Lone Star State despite operating from the Windy City. Southern death rites rendered in crushing breakdowns.
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