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AntiFragile (2025)
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Ad Astra (2025)
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Serpent & Spirit (2021)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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San Antonio technical death metal/deathcore. Precision brutality.
Greek death metal and deathcore band from Thessaloniki, active since 2014. They deliver punishing breakdowns and guttural vocals rooted in the Hellenic extreme metal underground.
Lowell, Massachusetts's Cunt Cuntly started as a bedroom solo project before expanding into a full band that pressed progressive ambition into a deathcore and death metal framework. Active from 2011 to 2017, they built an eclectic discography that showed a restless willingness to cover everything from Judas Priest to Creedence Clearwater Revival alongside their original extremity.
Death metal and deathcore band from Hamburg, Germany, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh, punishing extremity to the Hanseatic metal scene.
Death metal and deathcore band from Kuopio, Finland, active since 2011. They deliver crushing extremity from the eastern Finnish lakeland.
Brutal death metal and deathcore act from Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. They deliver slamming brutality and crushing breakdowns from the famous Bohemian spa town.
Progressive death metal and deathcore band from the Essonne south of Paris, France, formed in 2017. They blend progressive complexity with extreme metal aggression.
Reno death metal, deathcore, and metalcore band fusing modern extreme metal's heaviest elements into a punishing hybrid. Cyanate layers crushing breakdowns and guttural death metal aggression over a metalcore song framework.
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