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Isoptera is a death metal/deathcore band from Tavannes, Switzerland, formed in 2015, delivering brutal, breakdown-laden extreme metal from the Bernese Jura. The band's name — the taxonomic order of termites — reflects their corrosive, relentless approach to heavy music.
Ivory is a deathcore and metalcore outfit from Fürstenfeld, Austria, formed in 2019, channeling crushing breakdowns and aggressive riffing. The band fuses the rhythmic brutality of deathcore with melodic metalcore hooks in a punishing modern extreme metal style.
Eugene, Oregon's Jean Grey occupy a savage corner of melodic death and deathcore, named after the Marvel character but sonically closer to the chaos of her Phoenix form — technically sharp riffs and deathcore breakdowns wrapped in an unexpected sense of melody.
Jenova is a death metal band from Dublin, Ireland, performing since November 2015 and bringing intense extreme metal to the Irish live circuit. Their EP The Less You Know, The More You Sleep (2017) and single Nail the Eye channel crushing death metal aggression through a tight, punishing sound.
Job for a Cowboy formed in Glendale, Arizona in 2003 when its founding members were teenagers, initially playing deathcore before pivoting decisively to straight death metal with their Metal Blade debut Genesis (2007). The New York Times described the band's sound as descended from hardcore punk with a guttural, brute-force delivery, and subsequent records pushed further into technical death metal territory before the band went on an extended hiatus.
Emerging from Krasnystaw, this Polish act forges Death Metal and Deathcore built on suffocating heaviness anchored by rumbling low-end. Each release doubles down on cavernous production and churning tremolo work.
Slam/brutal death metal and deathcore act from Kiel on Germany's Baltic coast, formed in 2024 and delivering punishing slam breakdowns and guttural brutality. Their sound mines the heaviest depths of modern extreme metal.
Out of Seattle since 2023, Kakarotabafatada fuse death metal brutality with the chugging density of deathcore, bringing Pacific Northwest grime to a genre that rewards volume and physicality. A young band with a name that demands attention.
Symphonic/melodic deathcore band from Paris, formed in 2021 with a Japanese name meaning "wrath of God." Their ambitious approach layers orchestral grandeur over crushing deathcore breakdowns.
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