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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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Karlskrona's S.I.V pair death metal and deathcore from the Swedish naval base city since 2025. Their terse acronym and Baltic military-port origins channel concentrated force into freshly-minted compositions of extreme heaviness.
Sacred Hate deliver deathcore from the Alsatian city of Colmar, combining crushing breakdowns with the contradiction of their name. They bring sacred-profane intensity to the eastern French heavy scene.
Almere's Salute the Exiled deliver death metal and deathcore from the planned city near Amsterdam since 2013. Their name honoring the banished channels outsider energy into compositions of modern extremity.
Reno, Nevada's SandVVitch arrived in 2025 armed with technical death metal's structural complexity and deathcore's visceral impact, assembling a sound that treats both subgenres as a single toolkit. The band's irreverent name belies music built on serious technical chops — dissonant, rhythmically unorthodox, and uninterested in playing it safe.
Gothenburg's Science of Demise deliver progressive deathcore from Sweden's metal capital since 2013. Their systematic-annihilation name channels the methodical study of destruction into technically ambitious compositions from the birthplace of melodic death metal.
Science of Sleep deliver deathcore from Brunswick, combining crushing breakdowns with technical precision and atmospheric passages. Active since 2012, they've been a fixture in the Lower Saxon heavy music scene for over a decade.
Screams from Equestria blend death metal, deathcore, and melodic death metal from an undisclosed Irish location since 2013. Their unusual name, referencing a fictional pony realm, creates a jarring contrast with their extreme sound.
Florida's Scumfuck formed in 2017 at the intersection of brutal death metal and deathcore, weaponizing the genre's most punishing extremes into a relentless sonic assault. Their approach leans into guttural low-end devastation and breakneck tempo shifts that typify the brutal deathcore underground. Unapologetically vicious, they are a product of the deep Florida death metal tradition refracted through modern deathcore aggression.
Deathcore band from Ljubuški, Bosnia and Herzegovina, formed in 2011, delivering crushing breakdowns and extreme vocal aggression from the heart of Herzegovina. Their presence underscores the growing reach of modern extreme metal subgenres in the Western Balkans.
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