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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.
Varnamo's Voiceless Location delivers punishing death metal and deathcore with a modern, production-heavy approach. Their breakdown-laden compositions channel the aggression of the deathcore tradition through a Swedish extreme metal lens.
Saginaw, Michigan's Void Collapse have been at it since 2014, blending death metal's brutality with deathcore's structural instincts — breakdowns deployed with intention, technicality used as a weapon rather than a showcase. The Midwest rust belt doesn't produce soft music, and Void Collapse fit naturally into a regional tradition of industrial-strength heavy sounds. A decade of existence gives them a depth of catalog worth digging into.
Formed in Seattle in 2020, Void Dancer pull from melodic death metal, deathcore, and straight death metal, weaving melody into otherwise crushing structures in a way that feels earned rather than conciliatory. The Seattle metal underground has always valued craft alongside aggression, and Void Dancer reflect that sensibility — technically capable, emotionally direct, and not afraid of a hook buried inside a breakdown. They're a product of the pandemic-era underground that emerged with a clear artistic identity.
New Orleans' Wasted Creation formed in 2020 at the punishing convergence of technical death metal and deathcore, drawing on a city whose musical DNA runs unusually deep even for extreme metal. The technical sophistication of their death metal side coexists with the sheer brutality of deathcore in a way that feels native to a city that has always blended traditions without hesitation. They arrived ready to inflict serious damage.
Technical death metal and deathcore band from Málaga, Spain active since 2013. Wasting the Genesis fuses intricate technical death metal with deathcore's punishing breakdowns, delivering precision-driven extremity from Andalusia.
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