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Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
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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Machiavellian is a death metal and deathcore band from Skelmersdale, England, formed in 2019, incorporating sludge metal influences. They deliver crushing extreme metal built on devastating heaviness.
Mainswitch is a deathcore act from Tallinn, delivering breakdown-heavy aggression seasoned with Baltic intensity. Active since 2015, the band operates within Estonia's small but dedicated extreme metal community.
A deathcore outfit from the Galician city of A Coruña, Maisha brings crushing breakdowns and guttural fury to Spain's Atlantic coast. Formed in 2018, the band injects the aggression of modern extreme metal into Galicia's rock-oriented music landscape.
Maleceptor is a brutal death metal act from Liverpool with deathcore elements, delivering punishing extremity since 2015. The band pairs guttural vocals with crushing breakdowns and technical precision.
Maløk is a black, death metal, and deathcore band from Győr, Hungary, formed in 2022. They fuse extreme metal styles from western Hungary.
Manifestation is a death metal and deathcore act from Northern Ireland, active since 2018. The band delivers crushing extremity from a region with a small but dedicated extreme metal community.
Gary, Indiana's Manifestations emerged in 2022 at the intersection of death metal and deathcore, reflecting a Rust Belt heaviness that comes through in every breakdown and blastbeat. The band draws from the surrounding region's working-class edge to fuel some genuinely punishing material.
Los Angeles' Manipulated Mutilation have occupied the brutal end of the death metal spectrum since 2009, blending slam's bone-snapping groove with the surgical extremity of technical deathcore. The result is visceral, precise, and entirely uncompromising.
Connecticut's Margo have been pushing a death metal and deathcore hybrid out of Wallingford since 2015, with a sound that emphasizes heaviness and intensity over any tendency toward accessibility. Exactly what you'd expect from a band that has no interest in being easy.
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