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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)
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Named for Hawthorne's condemned outsider, Kansas City's Hester Prynne channel that defiant energy into a brutal blend of deathcore and straight-ahead death metal. Active since 2009, they pair pulverizing low-end chug with genuine death metal menace.
Relentless deathcore (early); black/death metal (later) project from Milan/Lodi/Bergamo, carving a path through Italy's underground since 2013. Their sound channels tremolo-driven fury and blasting percussion through walls of distortion.
Symphonic deathcore band from Bilbao, Spain, formed in 2024. Their ambitious fusion layers orchestral grandeur over deathcore brutality from the Basque industrial capital.
A thunderous brutal death metal/deathcore entity from Finland, active since 2024. Technical precision and brutal aggression merge in their approach to the genre.
Death metal/deathcore band from Lathen, Germany, formed in 2018. Their graphic approach to extreme metal delivers crushing brutality from the rural reaches of the Emsland region.
Melodic death metal/deathcore band from Wilhelmshaven, Germany, active since 2013. Their ironic name contrasts with serious melodic death metal craftsmanship delivered from the North Sea coast.
Arlington, Texas's Hope Deferred occupy the grinding intersection of deathcore and death metal, channeling spiritual despair into brutally heavy music since 2016. The name comes from scripture; the sound comes from somewhere far darker.
Crushing Death Metal / Deathcore from Amarillo.
Death metal act from Rennes in Brittany, active since 2009. Their politically charged name adds thematic depth to crushing death metal from France's northwestern underground.
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