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Divine (2024)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Talion from Halberstadt in Saxony-Anhalt deliver death metal and deathcore with punishing breakdowns and guttural ferocity since 2019. Their sound combines the technical brutality of modern death metal with deathcore's rhythmic heaviness from the heart of former East Germany.
Teralit from Italy deliver brutal death metal and deathcore with the geological weight of their tectonic-plate-referencing name since 2018. Their compositions crush with the force of shifting continental masses.
Springfield, Massachusetts' The Acacia Strain have been a defining force in American deathcore since 2004, building a reputation on impossibly dense breakdowns, guttural low-tuned brutality, and a nihilistic worldview that feels more like a threat than a lyrical stance. Their sound sits at the intersection of death metal's technical menace and hardcore's confrontational physicality, with an almost suffocating heaviness that has made them a touchstone for a generation of heavy music fans.
The Argent Dawn from Swindon deliver deathcore named after the Warcraft faction of undead-hunters since 2010. Over fifteen years of gaming-inspired breakdowns from the Wiltshire town has produced compositions as crushing as a raid boss encounter.
Founded in September 2013 in Krems an der Donau, The Art of Fading play modern melodic death metal and deathcore, combining driving riffs and heavy breakdowns with melodic passages. They released their debut EP "Principles" in October 2014 and have performed alongside Evergreen Terrace and I Declare War, building their name in the Central European extreme metal circuit.
The Beast Within is a technical death metal and deathcore band from Szeged, Hungary, formed in 2016. They combine technical precision with brutal heaviness and breakdown-driven aggression.
The Bleedout is a deathcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing deathcore from the Finnish capital.
Death metal/deathcore band from Bad Ischl, Upper Austria, The Blood Mile formed in 2008 and were active until 2012. Their sound merged melodic death metal structures with raw hardcore-influenced breakdowns, drawing comparisons to The Black Dahlia Murder.
The Borealist is a deathcore band from Joensuu, Finland, formed in 2020. They deliver punishing deathcore from eastern Finland.
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