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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Meet the Maker is a deathcore act from Athens, active since 2018. The band delivers crushing breakdowns and guttural aggression from the Greek capital's increasingly diverse extreme music scene.
MeinKraft is an experimental deathcore/grindcore/goregrind act from Zlín, Czech Republic, formed in 2021. Their sound pushes into the chaotic extremes of heavy music, blending the breakdowns of deathcore with grindcore's velocity and goregrind's visceral shock value.
Mensis is a melodic death metal/deathcore band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2017. Their sound blends the harmonic sophistication of melodic death metal with deathcore's crushing breakdowns from the Baden-Württemberg capital.
Mental Cruelty is a deathcore band from Karlsruhe, Germany, whose sound evolved from brutal deathcore into a symphonic variant across releases like "Pereat Mundus," "Purgatorium," and the ambitious "Zwielicht." Their blend of orchestral grandeur with crushing deathcore breakdowns has made them one of Germany's most prominent extreme metal exports.
Mester is a melodic death metal/deathcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2021. Their sound bridges the melodic sensibility of Scandinavian death metal with the crushing breakdowns of deathcore.
Metaphilia is a deathcore outfit from Alicante on Spain's Mediterranean coast, delivering breakdown-laden brutality since 2022. The band combines modern extreme metal aggression with the intensity of the Valencian underground.
Brutal Technical Death Metal / Deathcore out of Texas.
Atlanta's Mirthless fuse progressive death metal architecture with deathcore muscle, bringing technical song construction and shifting dynamics to a brutally heavy foundation that has made them one of Georgia's more compositionally ambitious extreme acts since 2017.
Las Vegas's Misericordiam are one of Nevada's most sonically restless extreme acts, having moved through grindcore, deathcore, brutal death metal, and hardcore over nearly two decades, always holding to a philosophy of unrelenting aggression and maximum sonic density.
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