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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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Spacecorpse is a technical death metal and deathcore band from Boulder, Colorado, formed in 2020. They combine the precision and complexity of technical death metal with the structural aggression of deathcore, representing the heavier end of Colorado's growing extreme metal scene.
Species Splicer is a Lynnwood, Washington band formed in 2017 that operates in the overlapping territory of blackened brutal death metal and deathcore. Their sound grafts the chromatic density and guttural extremity of brutal death metal onto deathcore's breakdown-heavy architecture, with black metal atmosphere woven throughout.
Spinal Fluid is a Minneapolis slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, focused on the pit-ready downtuned breakdowns and guttural extremity that define the slam subgenre.
Brighton's Spinning Death Machine fuse death metal, deathcore, and progressive elements into compositions that prize complexity without sacrificing brutality. Active since 2013, they navigate intricate time signatures with controlled violence.
Technical deathcore act from Salzburg combining brutal heaviness with atmospheric depth and complex storytelling across releases like "Those Who Live In Death" and "Ghost Of Sparta." Their thematic palette draws heavily from mythology and video game lore, wrapping intricate technical musicianship in cinematic, narrative-driven compositions.
Spiteful Visions is a Minneapolis death metal and deathcore band formed in 2022, incorporating melodic and technical death metal elements alongside deathcore breakdowns for a multifaceted approach to extreme metal.
Crema's Spleen Flipper weave black, death, deathcore, melodic death, and metalcore from the Cremona countryside since 2013. Their genre-spanning approach and visceral name reflect an unwillingness to be confined by stylistic boundaries.
Los Angeles progressive death metal and deathcore act Sporemacide formed in 2025, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the heaviness of death metal and deathcore.
Stabbing Serenade is a death metal and deathcore band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 2024, combining deathcore's breakdown-driven aggression with the technical and melodic elements of contemporary death metal.
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