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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)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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Death metal, deathcore, and melodic death metal act from Helsinki, Finland launched in 2024. They bring a multi-faceted approach to modern extreme metal from the Finnish capital.
Boston's Engraved in Bone hits at the intersection of old-school death metal and modern deathcore, channeling New England grit into bone-snapping riffs and guttural vocal assaults.
Born in Baltimore in 2021, Engulfed in Hate fuses brutal death metal's punishing low end with deathcore's structural violence, channeling the city's aggression into a suffocating sonic barrage.
Death metal and deathcore band from Vantaa, Finland formed in 2020. They deliver punishing modern extreme metal from the Helsinki metropolitan area.
Hungarian death metal, deathcore, and technical death metal act, active since 2020 delivering HM-2 filth and d-beat fury in the old Swedish tradition. Rooted in a scene that bridges Western and Eastern European extremity, their approach favors no-frills brutality over technical showmanship.
Pittsburgh's Entheogen laces symphonic grandeur into deathcore and death metal, building an overpowering wall of sound that juxtaposes orchestral sweep with modern extremity. Formed in 2017, they're one of the more ambitious acts in the city's underground.
Santa Cruz's Entheos emerged in 2015 as one of progressive deathcore's more technically accomplished acts, blending jazz-influenced rhythmic complexity with modern extremity and the kind of compositional sophistication that earns them fans in multiple metal camps.
Salt Lake City's Entomb the Wicked has been bridging death metal and deathcore since 2015, bringing Utah's underrated heavy scene to bear on a sound that's both crushing and technically accomplished. Proof that the Mountain West has teeth.
Vienna, Virginia's Entropic Gluttony crash deathcore's structural heaviness into old-school death metal savagery, a potent combination since their 2021 formation in the DC suburbs.
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