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Featured Album
"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Chesapeake, Virginia band working across death metal, deathcore, and technical death metal, combining the surgical precision of tech-death with the breakdown intensity of deathcore.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Seville, Spain, formed in 2014. They blend melodic guitar harmonies with crushing deathcore breakdowns from the Andalusian capital.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Manchester, England, formed in 2014. They deliver slamming, punishing extremity from northern England.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Hof in Upper Franconia, Germany, formed in 2014. They deliver slamming brutality and crushing breakdowns from the Bavarian-Thuringian border.
Symphonic deathcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2024. They blend symphonic grandeur with crushing deathcore breakdowns and death metal extremity.
Death metal, deathcore, and grindcore band from Hampshire, England, active since 2007. They deliver a chaotic blend of extreme metal genres from southern England.
Chaos Brigade is a death metal and deathcore band from Paterson, New Jersey that blends melodic death metal hooks with the crushing heaviness of deathcore. Formed in 2017, the band draws on themes of life, death, and the unknown across their independently released material.
Crushing Deathcore from Houston.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Bottrop, Germany, formed in 2017. They blend melodic guitar harmonies with crushing deathcore breakdowns from the northern Ruhr region.
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