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Brutal Technical Death Metal / Deathcore from New Braunfels.
Brutal Deathcore from El Paso.
Hardinsburg, Kentucky deathcore project with seven releases since 2013. Broadcasting To The Nations and subsequent albums demonstrate a prolific commitment to crushing breakdowns from one of Kentucky's most rural communities.
Ayahuasca is a progressive death metal and deathcore band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2013, named after the psychoactive Amazonian brew used in shamanic rituals. The band channels altered states and expansive consciousness into their blend of technical progressive death metal and deathcore aggression.
French deathcore band from Brizambourg, active since 1993. With over three decades of history, they are one of France's most long-standing deathcore acts.
Chernihiv-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2015, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
A death metal/deathcore band from Chesapeake, Virginia active since 2010, continuing to operate independently in the underground scene.
Collinsville, Illinois act Barbed Wire Sandwich occupies the convergence of slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore, bringing the genre's most physically punishing characteristics together under one deliberately confrontational name.
German progressive and technical deathcore band from Freilassing, formed in 2018. They push deathcore into progressive and technical territory with complex song structures and precision musicianship.
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