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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Death metal and deathcore band from Lomnice nad Popelkou, Czech Republic, formed in 2020. They fuse death metal aggression with deathcore breakdowns and modern extreme metal dynamics.
Brutal deathcore.
Tulsa's Crown of Thorns pushes into extreme territory with a deathcore sound that incorporates death metal's brutality and breakdown-heavy structure, representing the heavier end of Oklahoma's active metal underground. Heavy and unsparing, they're built for live punishment.
Richmond, Virginia's Crucial Rip combine death metal's technical brutality with deathcore's breakdown-driven heaviness into a punishing and visceral sound. The band channels the aggressive spirit of the Richmond metal scene into dense, relentless music.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from the Vienna and Lower Austria region, newly formed in 2025. They fuse the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian-style melodeath with the crushing breakdowns and modern aggression of deathcore.
Symphonic death-deathcore act from Örebro, formed in 2023. Cryptic Doom merges orchestral elements with modern extreme metal from central Sweden.
Death metal and deathcore act from Kaunas, Lithuania, formed in 2021. Crypts of Despair delivers crushing extremity from Lithuania's second-largest city.
Death metal and deathcore band from Toledo, Spain, active since 2012. They deliver crushing extremity from the ancient Castilian city.
Nashville, Tennessee deathcore outfit Cult Breather bring punishing breakdowns and brutal death metal riffing to the Southern underground. Their sound is dense, technical, and relentlessly heavy.
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