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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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Pesaro, Italy — death metal and deathcore of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2011, they deal in percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
Deathcore act from the Rohrbach/Sankt Ingbert area of Germany's Saarland region, formed in 2023, delivering breakdown-heavy aggression. Their Cheech and Chong-referencing name adds dark humor to their punishing deathcore sound.
Deathcore band from Moscow, Russia active since 2009, representing over 15 years of crushing breakdowns and extreme heaviness from the Russian capital.
Memphis's East ov Eden blends technical death metal's surgical precision with deathcore's brutalist breakdown tendencies, a volatile combination the band has been refining since forming in 2023.
Miami's Echoes of a Nightmare has been fusing symphonic orchestration with death metal aggression and deathcore breakdowns since 2013 — a combination that plays to the city's theatrical, multilingual metal scene.
Fresh out of St. Louis as of 2025, Echoes of Maleficium arrive with a sound rooted in melodic technical deathcore — tight, layered, and already positioning themselves at the more ambitious end of the subgenre.
Denver's Eddie Kim charts one of the more interesting trajectories in the underground — starting from post-rock and progressive territory before evolving toward death metal, deathcore, and djent, active since 2011.
Out of Houston in 2025, Edeniswaiting blend melodic death with deathcore hooks — part of a new wave of Texas extreme metal acts arriving with modern production sensibilities and a clear melodic identity.
Out of Kenosha, Wisconsin since 2014, Edict of Nantes builds at the crossroads of metalcore structure and deathcore weight, taking their name from a historical decree and filtering it through a decade of underground heaviness.
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