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Boston deathcore act Totality arrived in 2023 with a sound that bridges crushing deathcore breakdowns with death metal's heavier atmospheric tendencies, adding to New England's increasingly diverse extreme metal landscape.
A Minneapolis death metal and deathcore outfit formed in 2024, Touch of Malice brings the punishing low-end brutality of modern deathcore together with the riff-driven intensity of straight death metal, marking themselves as one of the Twin Cities' newest extreme metal voices.
Transcending the Flesh is a deathcore band from Canterbury, Kent, active since 2014. Their music delivers punishing breakdowns and extreme aggression from a city better known for its medieval cathedral than its brutal metal scene.
Birmingham, Alabama's Trapaw have been pushing deathcore and death metal into brutal territory since 2013, fusing down-tuned guitar punishment with the bone-snapping breakdowns that define the Southeastern extreme metal underground.
Jacksonville's Trash Panda occupy the brutal end of Florida's already ferocious death metal scene, merging deathcore breakdowns with slam-influenced brutality since 2016 under a name that belies the weight of their sound.
Scranton, Pennsylvania's Traverse the Abyss blend the guttural intensity of death metal with the rhythmic aggression of deathcore and metalcore, occupying the heavier end of the modern extreme metal spectrum since 2016.
TrenchHead is a brutal deathcore band from London, active since 2013. Their music delivers the most punishing combination of brutal death metal and hardcore breakdowns from the UK capital's extreme music underground.
Tripalium from Limoges deliver deathcore named after the Roman instrument of torture that gave us the word 'travail' since 2014. A decade of compositions from the Limousin capital has channeled ancient punishment into modern breakdown-driven aggression.
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