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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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Six-member deathcore and death metal unit from Villach formed in 2010, painting "a dark picture of the world" through their music. Their 2016 album Aeon of Damnation layers symphonic elements over brutal breakdowns and blast beats.
Cleveland's Killer Whale Theory arrived in 2009 at the heavy end of deathcore, building songs with the structural weight and low-end density that the genre demands. A decade-plus into existence, they remain a fixture in Ohio's extreme underground.
Helsinki deathcore band that evolved into symphonic deathcore since forming in 2025, adding orchestral grandeur to the genre's crushing breakdowns. Their commanding name matches the imperial intensity of their symphonic extremity.
Deathcore band from Augsburg in Bavaria, active since 2014 and delivering breakdown-heavy aggression with guttural vocals. Their decade of output represents the heavier end of the Bavarian modern metal scene.
When Kohorta emerged in 2012 from Dobre Miasto, they brought with them a sound rooted in death metal and deathcore — all punishing grooves interlocked with frenzied tremolo passages. Primal ferocity drives every note of their catalog.
Deathcore band from Avignon in Provence, active since 2013 and delivering over a decade of breakdown-heavy aggression. Their fortress-referencing name adds medieval weight to their southern French deathcore.
New Orleans-based Konstricted blends death metal, groove metal, and deathcore in a city that has long elevated heavy music to an art form. Active since 2016, they absorb the bayou city's tradition of hypnotic rhythmic power and combine it with modern extremity and bone-crushing breakdowns.
Melodic death metal/deathcore band from Almagro in Castilla-La Mancha, active since 2010 and delivering over a decade of genre-blending extremity. Their sound bridges the melodic hooks of Swedish death metal with deathcore's heavy breakdowns.
Thrash metal and deathcore outfit from Valenciennes in northern France, active since 2014 and blending crossover thrash intensity with the breakdown-heavy aggression of deathcore. Their sound draws on the region's industrial grit and working-class energy.
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