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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Portland/Atlanta death metal, deathcore, and djent project. The geological name — sediment deposited by flowing water — suits their layered, technically demanding approach.
Boise deathcore act with five releases documenting their evolution since 2014. Their sound channels the technical brutality and breakdown-heavy approach of modern deathcore through a Mountain West perspective.
Altar of Despair channels death metal and deathcore from Espoo since 2025, representing the newest wave of extreme music in Finland's second-largest city. Their sacrificial name signals a project devoted to the darkest expressions of modern heaviness.
Melodic metalcore/deathcore band from Vevey, Switzerland, active since 2014 with releases including their debut "Aberrant Minds Provoke Murders" (2014), "A Mountain Peaks' Myth" (2019), and the 2024 EP "Despised Paradise." Their 2025 single "Increase" was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Loic Gaillard at Uproarious Records, with orchestrations by Brian Bendahan.
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Amid the Barren and Lost fuses death metal, deathcore, and thrash metal from London since 2018, their desolate name evoking the wasteland their compositions inhabit. Their triple-genre approach creates an overwhelming assault.
Ammit is a death metal and deathcore band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, named after the Egyptian mythological demoness — part lion, hippopotamus, and crocodile — who devoured the hearts of the unworthy dead. The band incorporates lyrical themes drawn from hermetic philosophy and Egyptian mythology, and their sound blends the technicality of modern death metal with the heaviness of deathcore. They gained early visibility opening for Ukrainian metal act Jinjer on the band's Brazilian dates.
Denver deathcore newcomers who debuted in 2025 with Making Sense Of Our Decay. The EP delivers the crushing breakdowns and guttural punishment the genre demands, arriving from a Colorado scene increasingly fertile for extreme music.
Jamestown, New York deathcore and melodeath project. Piercing beauty from the southern tier of Western New York.
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