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Manifestation is a death metal and deathcore act from Northern Ireland, active since 2018. The band delivers crushing extremity from a region with a small but dedicated extreme metal community.
Gary, Indiana's Manifestations emerged in 2022 at the intersection of death metal and deathcore, reflecting a Rust Belt heaviness that comes through in every breakdown and blastbeat. The band draws from the surrounding region's working-class edge to fuel some genuinely punishing material.
Los Angeles' Manipulated Mutilation have occupied the brutal end of the death metal spectrum since 2009, blending slam's bone-snapping groove with the surgical extremity of technical deathcore. The result is visceral, precise, and entirely uncompromising.
Connecticut's Margo have been pushing a death metal and deathcore hybrid out of Wallingford since 2015, with a sound that emphasizes heaviness and intensity over any tendency toward accessibility. Exactly what you'd expect from a band that has no interest in being easy.
Martyr Defiled was a deathcore act from Lincoln, active since 2009 and one of the UK's most prominent bands in the genre. The band delivered ferocious, breakdown-heavy extremity that helped define the British deathcore sound alongside acts like Ingested.
Warren, Michigan's Masses in Atrophy blend death metal brutality with deathcore's structural heaviness into something that hits with the weight of the Rust Belt's industrial decay. Since 2019 they've been one of Metro Detroit's more punishing contributions to the extreme underground.
Columbus' Massive Gun arrived in 2023 with a death metal and deathcore sound that's as direct as their name suggests — blunt, heavy, and built around maximum impact. Ohio's metal scene has a long tradition of producing bands with no interest in subtlety.
Matakabra brought a confrontational edge to northeastern Brazil's extreme metal scene, combining deathcore heaviness with death metal, black metal, and djent elements into a sound driven by deeply political Portuguese-language lyrics. Their 2017 EP 'Marginal' — featuring the tracks 'No Açoite' and 'Mordaça' — addressed racism and systemic oppression head-on, earning the band a place in the Força Metal BR annual compilation and a performance at the long-running Abril Pro Rock festival in Recife.
A deathcore act from Dresden, Maze of Lies has been delivering breakdown-heavy compositions since 2016. The band channels the labyrinthine deception of their name into crushing, aggressive deathcore.
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