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Luhansk's Ventriloquist delivers crushing death metal and deathcore from eastern Ukraine, pairing guttural vocals with technical riffing and punishing breakdowns. Their aggressive, modern approach channels the intensity of the Donbas region's underground metal scene.
VEXED formed in Hertfordshire, England in 2019, built around the contrasting vocal interplay of Megan Targett and a sonic palette that fuses alternative metal melodicism with deathcore brutality. Their debut album Culling Culture (2021) drew immediate attention for its thematic directness and polished production, and they followed it with Negative Energy (2023) on Napalm Records, a heavier record that scaled back the clean vocal passages in favor of a more aggressive sound.
Kyiv's Violateress delivers aggressive death metal and deathcore with a modern, polished production approach. Their compositions pair technical guitar work with punishing breakdowns and guttural vocal fury, representing Kyiv's active extreme metal underground.
Romanian act Violent Goat Rot delivers a merciless combination of death metal and deathcore, piling on guttural vocals and crushing breakdowns with gleeful abandon. Their unsubtle approach to extremity channels the most punishing end of the genre spectrum.
Violent Relapse is a deathcore band from Arbroath, Scotland, formed in 2012. They deliver punishing deathcore with breakdowns and blast beats from the Scottish east coast.
Out of Westfield, Indiana, Vires blends deathcore's structural aggression with death metal's technical vocabulary, forming a sound that leans into the punishing side of the hybrid. Founded in 2022, they represent the newer generation of Midwest extreme metal acts bringing a modernized heaviness to a scene with deep underground roots.
Virgil is a blackened deathcore project from the Hauts-de-France region, active since 2000. With over two decades of activity, they blend blackened atmospherics with deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
Union City's Viscerally Scarred have been refining their death-deathcore hybrid in the Bay Area underground since 2013, long enough to outlast trends and develop a sound that owes something to both brutal death metal and the structural architecture of deathcore. Their longevity in a competitive California scene speaks to a real command of what makes extreme metal physically compelling.
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