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Oshkosh, Wisconsin deathcore project with an explosive eight releases since 2025. Frostbound and Latitudes demonstrate a band producing material at remarkable speed, building a substantial catalog of breakdown-heavy extremity from Fox Valley.
Modesto, California deathcore project. The Gnostic-derived name — referencing the archons who imprison human souls in matter — adds philosophical weight to Central Valley aggression.
San Jose, California deathcore outfit whose 2020 debut Unto Leviathan invokes biblical sea monsters through crushing breakdowns. Bay Area brutality channeled through Old Testament imagery.
Columbus deathcore act unleashing crushing breakdowns and guttural fury from Ohio's capital city, feeding into the state's consistently productive extreme metal pipeline.
Atlanta deathcore band delivering savage breakdowns from Georgia's capital, contributing to the city's increasingly vital extreme music scene with punishing intensity.
Arreat Summit crafts technical death metal and deathcore from Linköping since 2013. Named after the mountain in the Diablo video game series, they bring gaming mythology to over a decade of technically demanding extremity.
Arsonists Get All the Girls are a deathcore and mathcore band from Santa Cruz, California, formed in 2005 and noted in their early years for fusing aggressive extreme metal with electronic elements and dual keyboards. Signed to Century Media Records, they released five studio albums including Hits from the Bow and The Game of Life, and toured with acts such as Darkest Hour and Carnifex. After years of dormancy, the band held reunion performances in 2024 and 2025, maintaining a dedicated cult following within the technical metalcore community.
Artificial Pathogen delivers brutal death metal and deathcore from Glasgow since 2015, their lab-created-disease name reflecting the engineered brutality of their compositions. Over a decade of Scottish extremity speaks to sustained commitment.
Artwork of Hate creates melodic death metal with deathcore elements from Klæbu near Trondheim since 2015. Their creative-violence name suggests brutality elevated to an art form through melodic sophistication.
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