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Billings, Montana's Shores of Leine have been crafting progressive deathcore since 2013, pushing beyond the genre's standard brutality with complex arrangements and a compositional ambition rare for a band from one of the most isolated metal scenes in the country.
Fredericksburg, Virginia's Short Bus Pile Up began as a deathcore act before evolving into one of the more punishing slam and brutal death metal bands on the East Coast, their trajectory from brutal deathcore to full-blown slamming devastation making them a standout in a crowded field.
Florence, South Carolina's Shotgun Facelift evolved from brutal deathcore beginnings into a full-on slam and brutal death metal band, bringing maximum heaviness and surgical gore-drenched brutality to the South Carolina underground since 2020.
San Francisco's Shotgun Facelift take the experimental and technical end of deathcore into genuinely unpredictable territory, founded in 2020 and building a sound that treats the genre's heaviness as raw material for something far more dissonant and architecturally unusual.
Morgantown, West Virginia's Shotgun Surgeon deal in a punishing blend of death metal and deathcore, combining brutal low-end heaviness with the structural savagery that has defined the region's underground extreme scene since their 2014 formation.
Highland Charter Township, Michigan's Shrine of Broken Glass, formed in 2021, blend melodic black metal sweep with deathcore's crushing low-end architecture, constructing a layered and aggressive hybrid that pushes both genres toward their outer edges.
Chicago's Shrine of Flesh merge deathcore and death metal into a dense, pit-ready assault, the band's Illinois roots feeding into a sound that reflects Chicago's long history of producing technically demanding and physically punishing extreme music since 2015.
Staten Island progressive thrash/death metal act formed in 2023 that evolved toward deathcore, mapping a trajectory from technical complexity toward crushing modern heaviness — a New York City band navigating the intersection of precision and brutality.
Death metal band from Olean, New York, formed in 2023, bringing a no-nonsense approach to brutality from a small upstate city with deep blue-collar roots.
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