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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Going Home in a Body Bag is a melodic deathcore band from Mönsterås and Nybro, Sweden, active since 2014 and delivering aggressive breakdowns and melodic leads from the Småland countryside. The project channels the intensity of deathcore through a Swedish lens.
La Cienega, New Mexico's Gouch arrived in 2024 combining grindcore's velocity with deathcore's breakdown-driven brutality — short, violent, and coming from one of the more unexpected corners of the American extreme metal map.
Graceful Degradation is a deathcore band from Moscow, Russia, formed in 2026 and representing the newest generation of Russian extreme metal. The project delivers crushing breakdowns and guttural fury.
Grave Insanity is a technical death metal and deathcore band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2021, combining intricate technical playing with deathcore's punishing breakdowns. The band operates at the intersection of precision and brutality in the Ruhr Valley scene.
Grave Pact is a melodic death metal and deathcore outfit from Tarbes in southwestern France, formed in 2024 and blending timeless metal roots with a modern, devastating sonic approach. Their tracks explore dreamlike and introspective lyrical themes set against raw, crushing instrumentation.
Louisville's Gravemouth operate at the intersection of deathcore and death metal proper, speaking in the language of slammed breakdowns and corrosive riffs. Active since 2015, they've refined Kentucky's underground brutality into something reliably ugly.
Devastating Symphonic Deathcore out of Texas.
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Baltimore's Greylotus represent the cutting edge of progressive deathcore, threading technical precision and unusual compositional structures through the genre's crushing heaviness. Since 2022, they've been one of the more ambitious young voices in an increasingly sophisticated scene.
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