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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Budapest-based technical death metal act active since 2024, weaving labyrinthine guitar work and shifting time signatures into their extreme metal framework. Their compositions demand both virtuosity and visceral impact, balancing cerebral complexity with gut-level heaviness.
French deathcore band from Saintes in Charente-Maritime, formed in 2017. They deliver criminal deathcore from the Saintonge region of western France.
Stoke-on-Trent-based deathcore act active since 2020, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Budapest-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2009, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Moscow-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2022, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
England-based deathcore act active since 2026, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Broken Dreams was an internet-assembled Argentine deathcore and cybergrind project formed by guitarist and programmer Fernando González from Puerto Deseado and vocalist Andrés Leonardo Stork from Tigre, who collaborated remotely. The band released a Demo in 2012 featuring nine tracks of bruising deathcore and brutal electronic elements before eventually going dormant.
Broken Neck is a metalcore band from Punta Arenas, Chile, operating at the southern tip of South America. The band released their debut material in September 2015 as a split with fellow Punta Arenas outfit Throxic, titled "Rising the Revenge," featuring five original tracks recorded at De Pirque Producciones.
Sintra-based deathcore act active since 2015, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
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