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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Amplified Mutation fuses technical death metal with deathcore from Bolzano in South Tyrol since 2022. Their bio-mechanical name captures the surgical precision and genetic horror of their Alpine-born extremity.
An Act of Grace is a deathcore band from Stuttgart, Germany, formed in 2014, whose releases include the full-length Path to Immortality and the single The Black Heart, which previewed their planned album The Great Mythunderstanding. The band incorporates djent and progressive metal influences into their melodic deathcore foundation, adding technical depth to the genre's characteristic brutality.
An Empire Will Fall delivers death metal and deathcore from Nottingham since 2013, their prophetic name promising the collapse their sound precipitates. Over a decade of East Midlands extremity reflects sustained commitment.
Springfield deathcore project from the Massachusetts underground.
Self-described purveyors of "Metal Chungo," Anajulia was a Valladolid deathcore outfit that based their lyrics on Spain's most infamous criminal cases and true crime stories. Across releases like "Crónica Negra, Vol. 1" and "Cinco Días De Cacería," they married brutal breakdowns with tabloid-shocking subject matter from 2019 to 2023.
Analzheimer delivers death metal and deathcore from the Norman capital of Rouen since 2019, their darkly humorous name combining anatomical provocation with cognitive decline. The project embraces the genre's tradition of shock-value naming.
Colorado death metal project.
Anaptosis creates slam and brutal deathcore from Paris since 2019, named after the biological process of programmed cell death. From the French capital, they deliver crushing breakdowns and guttural vocals with clinical intensity.
Long Island deathcore outfit with a massive nine-release catalog since 2013. Their full-length Absolute Hope Absolute Hell and steady stream of singles demonstrate relentless productivity from a band deeply embedded in New York's breakdown-heavy extreme scene.
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