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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Crushing Deathcore from San Antonio.
Blackened deathcore band from Neuchatel, Switzerland, active since 2015. They fuse the atmospheric darkness of black metal with deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
French deathcore band from Strasbourg, formed in 2017. They deliver crushing deathcore from the Alsatian capital.
Danish death metal and deathcore band from Herning, formed in 2025. They bring new blood to the Jutland extreme metal underground.
Heavy Deathcore from San Antonio.
Naousa-based melodic death metal/metalcore act active since 2013, blending Gothenburg-inspired guitar harmonies with metalcore's dynamic structures and breakdown-driven intensity. Their sound bridges the melodic death metal tradition with modern extreme metal's visceral energy.
Benevento-based deathcore act active since 2022, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
German deathcore band from Hamm, active since 2007. With nearly two decades of breakdowns and brutality, they are a veteran deathcore act from Westphalia.
Bournemouth-based deathcore act active since 2019, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
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