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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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Devastating Deathcore from San Antonio.
Since 2011, San Pedro's Destroy the Opposition have navigated the overlap between death metal and deathcore with a focus on sheer physical impact — their sound is dense, rhythmically punishing, and engineered for maximum damage to any room they play in.
Formed in McAllen in 2022, Destructive Cell represent the Rio Grande Valley's new wave of extreme metal, building deathcore material with the suffocating density and rhythmic precision the subgenre demands. The Texas-Mexico border has always produced music shaped by intensity and heat, and this band is no exception.
Devine Defilement is a death metal and deathcore band from Reykjavik, Iceland, formed in 2019. The band fuse the brutality of death metal with deathcore's modern aggression.
Out of Decatur, Texas, Devouring Plague have been delivering deathcore-laced death metal since 2011, bringing a small-town brutality to a genre that typically thrives in urban centers. More than a decade of existence has sharpened their sound into something dense, crushing, and unapologetically heavy.
Diamonds Are Forever is a metalcore/deathcore band from Cluj-Napoca, active since 2011 and bringing modern extreme metal to Transylvania's largest city. Their James Bond-quoting name adds unexpected glamour to a sound built on crushing breakdowns and guttural vocals.
DieBartDie is a death metal and deathcore project from Hereford, England, created by A.D. Marcovecchio, who also performs as Ascaris. The project layers brutal slam and beatdown riffs over samples from The Simpsons, a tongue-in-cheek approach showcased on the 2023 compilation I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing.
Dieversity is a melodic death metal and deathcore band from Arkhangelsk, Russia, formed in 2015. The project blends melodic death metal with deathcore from the Russian Arctic coast.
Dire End is a death metal/deathcore band from Bilbao, Spain, emerging in 2025. They bring fresh extremity to the Basque metal scene.
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