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Deathawaits is a death/thrash metal and deathcore band from Lyon, France, active since 2011. They merge death/thrash with deathcore from southeastern France.
Deathcrafted is a symphonic death metal and deathcore band from Presov, Slovakia, formed in 2021. The project blends symphonic elements with extreme metal.
Philadelphia's Decades of Deception have been merging deathcore's breakdown-driven architecture with death metal's technical brutality since 2008, making them veterans of the Philly extreme underground. Their longevity speaks to a fanbase that demands the real thing.
Schenectady deathcore act Declension arrived in 2022 trafficking in dense, down-tuned death metal attack bolstered by the mechanical precision of modern deathcore. Their name implies collapse — and the music delivers on the promise.
Tacoma's Decline of Order bulldoze through a dense tangle of brutal death metal and deathcore, built for maximum crushing impact. Since their 2022 formation they've pushed the genre's appetite for punishment to its logical extreme.
Boston's Decrepit Decapitation of a Man Once Lost in the Forest of Fate arrive in 2024 with one of extreme metal's most absurdly committed names and a sound to match — blackened deathcore colliding with death metal's raw, dissonant tradition. The title is a thesis statement.
Waco's Deep Rot Asphyxiation emerged in 2025 as one of Texas's newest entries in brutal deathcore, stacking suffocating breakdowns and guttural extremity from the jump.
Defamed is a Milanese deathcore act formed in 2020, riding the genre's wave of crushing breakdowns, guttural vocals, and blast-beat intensity. Their sound channels the modern deathcore template through an Italian lens, delivering punishing heaviness with precision.
Formed in Overpelt, Limburg in 2018, Defenestration deliver slamming death metal with a pronounced deathcore edge, built around crushing breakdowns and intricate transitions that preserve dynamics within their brutal framework. Their 2019 debut full-length Scalped on the Pavement, released through Justified Insanity Records, introduced the quartet's bone-crushing approach to the Belgian extreme metal scene.
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