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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Portuguese death metal/deathcore band from Braga, delivering crushing extremity since 2017. Their Manson-family-referencing name channels dark, provocative themes through heavy Portuguese metal.
German atmospheric deathcore project from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2022, layering ambient textures over crushing deathcore foundations. Their sound balances ethereal atmospherics with the genre's signature heaviness and breakdowns.
Devastating Deathcore out of Texas.
Czech deathcore outfit from Velka nad Velickou, delivering crushing breakdowns and aggressive extremity since 2022. Their sound channels the genre's signature low-tuned heaviness and rhythmic brutality.
Albuquerque's Last House on the Left named themselves after horror royalty and deliver deathcore with appropriately cinematic brutality since 2006. They've long been one of New Mexico's defining extreme metal acts, operating in the desert far from any major scene.
Out of the Tri-Cities, Washington, Left After Death arrived in 2025 fusing deathcore breakdowns with blackened atmospherics and death metal brutality. The band hits hard from the jump, blending suffocating heaviness with an icy, corrosive edge.
Viennese brutal deathcore unit delivering punishing slams and guttural vocals since 2017. Their self-titled debut channels relentless brutality across nine tracks of crushing breakdowns and slamming riffs.
Tacoma, Washington's Lenore have been marrying deathcore's crushing breakdowns to death metal's ferocity since 2016, drawing on the Pacific Northwest's tradition of heavy music that doesn't need sunshine to thrive. Bleak, heavy, and built to punish.
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania's Lest We Forget began as deathcore bruisers before expanding into progressive metalcore territory — their evolution mirrors the slow, deliberate weight of their Steel Belt hometown.
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