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MoonGod is a Union, New Jersey project formed in 2013 that straddles black metal, death metal, and deathcore — a combination that yields dense, heavy music with extremity coming from multiple directions simultaneously. The deathcore element brings a breakdown-ready low-end to what would otherwise be a straightforward blackened death framework.
Longview, Texas act formed in 2014, stacking technical death metal intricacy on top of a deathcore framework for a sound that is simultaneously punishing and precisely executed. They represent the East Texas underground's willingness to push extremity beyond genre borders.
San Francisco's Mordred are one of the most distinctive acts to emerge from the late-1980s Bay Area thrash scene, fusing tight thrash riffing with funk grooves and hip-hop sensibilities in a way that sounded unlike anything else at the time. Reactivated and recording since 2020, they continue to occupy a genre-crossing space that defies easy categorization.
Long-running Salinas, California act Moria have been bridging deathcore and death metal since 2004, outlasting countless scene trends to remain a fixture of the Central Valley underground with a brutal, technically grounded sound.
Port St. Lucie, Florida progressive death metal and deathcore band Mortal Judgment, formed in 2023, push the boundaries of both genres with technically ambitious arrangements and the kind of crushing breakdowns deathcore demands. Florida's deep extreme metal heritage provides both a high bar and a fertile tradition for a young band with serious technical ambitions.
North Carolina's Mortem Infectus push technical deathcore to its limits, merging the complexity of technical death metal with the breakdowns and structural aggression of deathcore since their 2019 formation.
MortSubite is a melodic death metal and deathcore band from Burgos, Spain, formed in 2010. They blend melodic death metal's harmonic sweep with deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
Portage, Indiana's Mortuus have been at the brutal death/deathcore crossroads since 2005, building a reputation for monstrous low-tuned riffs and guttural excess in a scene more typically associated with Midwestern hardcore.
Nashville's Moru began as a hardcore-rooted unit before evolving into something considerably heavier — their later work fuses progressive death metal architecture with deathcore aggression, reflecting a band willing to follow their instincts wherever the music leads.
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