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Featured Album
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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Sundsvall-based deathcore act active since 2011, 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.
French deathcore band from Montguyon, formed in 2015. They deliver crushing deathcore from the rural Charente-Maritime countryside.
Spanish deathcore band from Madrid, formed in 2011, whose sound evolved from technical deathcore toward symphonic deathcore. Their stylistic shift reflects an increasingly epic and orchestral approach to extremity.
Finnish melodic deathcore band from Seinäjoki, formed in 2024. They deliver melodic deathcore from the Ostrobothnian plains.
Budapest-based technical death metal act active since 2024, weaving labyrinthine guitar work and shifting time signatures into their extreme metal framework. Their compositions demand both virtuosity and visceral impact, balancing cerebral complexity with gut-level heaviness.
French deathcore band from Saintes in Charente-Maritime, formed in 2017. They deliver criminal deathcore from the Saintonge region of western France.
Stoke-on-Trent-based deathcore act active since 2020, 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.
Budapest-based death metal/deathcore act active since 2009, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with modern breakdown-heavy dynamics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Moscow-based brutal death metal outfit active since 2022, delivering relentless blastbeat-driven punishment and guttural vocal extremity. Their compositions trade in the genre's heaviest currency: slamming breakdowns, inhuman vocals, and wall-to-wall brutality.
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