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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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No Cross No Crown (2018)
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Symphonic blackened death-deathcore act from Chelyabinsk in the Urals, active since 2015. Coated with Filth merges orchestral elements with a volatile mix of extreme subgenres.
North Carolina death metal and deathcore act Codex Obscura traffic in punishing heaviness drawn from the darkest corners of extreme metal. They combine the genre's structural aggression with moments of technical brutality.
Detroit, Michigan's Coffin Feeder blend death metal, hardcore, and thrash into a vicious hybrid that carries the working-class aggression of Motor City metal. Their crossover-adjacent sound draws from Detroit's long history of heavy, confrontational music.
Brutal death metal and deathcore band from Essen, Germany, formed in 2024. They bring fresh, punishing extremity to the Ruhr Valley underground.
Hailing from New Jersey, Cognitive emerged in 2011 as a ferocious hybrid of technical death metal and deathcore, building from deathcore roots into a sophisticated extreme metal outfit marked by dissonant riffing, volatile time signatures, and the visceral contrast of blast beats against crushing breakdowns. Signed to Unique Leader and later Metal Blade Records, the band steadily elevated their craft across albums including Matricide and Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction (2021), cementing their standing among the sharper acts in the modern American death metal underground.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Leeds, England, active since 2013. They blend melodic sensibilities with extreme metal dynamics from Yorkshire.
Orlando's Cold Dead Hands deal in deathcore-informed brutality, stacking heavy breakdowns and death metal riffing with a predatory aggression that has made them a force in the Florida metal scene.
Myrtle Beach, South Carolina's Cold Spine bridges deathcore's breakneck heaviness with death metal's technical darkness, bringing a coastal Southern brutality that has nothing to do with the tourist strip.
Genre-spanning extreme metal band from Alicante, Spain, formed in 2023. Cold Without Sun blend black metal, deathcore, and symphonic elements into an ambitious sound from the Mediterranean coast.
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