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Divine (2024)
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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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Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Turku, Finland, active since 2021 and bridging the aggressive textures of deathcore with Scandinavian melodeath tradition. Their sound draws from both the Finnish melodic death metal heritage and modern deathcore's breakdown-driven intensity.
Deathcore outfit from Solingen in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia region, bringing breakdown-heavy aggression since 2023. Their sound channels the genre's characteristic blend of death metal technicality with hardcore-rooted heaviness.
Solo melodic deathcore project from Vienna created by Niko 'Abyss' Apostolakis, blending deathcore intensity with melodic death metal depth and technical precision. Influenced by classical composers and Dark Souls soundtracks, their releases include the debut album Before the Decay of Time and the EP A World in Flames.
San Antonio deathcore/metalcore with Texas swagger. Unapologetically heavy with Latin influences.
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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.
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