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New Orleans has produced an outsized share of American heavy music, and The Great Void fit naturally into that lineage while staking out their own ground in the overlap between death metal and deathcore since forming in 2018. Their sound carries the brutality and low-end density the city's metal tradition demands, filtered through the modern deathcore appetite for structural breakdowns and sheer sonic tonnage. They're among the more punishing acts to come out of a city where the bar for heaviness is already set high.
The Juliet Massacre is a death metal and deathcore band from Vasto in the Chieti province, Italy, formed in 2007. They combine death metal brutality with deathcore breakdowns and intense aggression.
Formed in Kansas City in 2017, The Lantern Hill Nightmare traffic in the punishing intersection of death metal and deathcore, building walls of downtuned riffs over blast-beat assaults and guttural vocal extremes. Their Missouri roots ground them in a Midwest scene that prizes heaviness without pretense, and their output pushes the brutality of deathcore toward the more technical demands of straight death metal.
Hailing from the small town of Milton, New Hampshire, The Last King have been carving out a hybrid of melodic death metal and deathcore since 2015 — pairing Gothenburg-influenced guitar harmonies with the low-end breakdowns and rhythmic precision that define modern deathcore. The contrast between sweeping melodic passages and crushing heavy sections gives their music a cinematic tension.
The Malum Process from Antibes on the French Riviera deliver slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore under a name meaning 'the evil process' since 2020. Their sun-drenched Côte d'Azur setting provides ironic contrast to their grotesque sonic violence.
The Mensis Ritual is a death metal/deathcore band from England, formed in 2019. Their name references the nightmarish ritual from the video game Bloodborne, and their music delivers similarly intense and brutal extremity.
The Modern Age Slavery is a death metal and deathcore band from Reggio Emilia, Italy, formed in 2008. They deliver punishing, politically charged extreme metal combining death metal brutality with deathcore's crushing breakdowns.
The Offering formed in Boston, Massachusetts in 2015, drawing on melodic death metal, groove metal, and deathcore in a style shaped by the diverse tastes of frontman Alex Richichi. A self-titled EP in 2017 secured them a deal with Century Media Records, which released their debut full-length Home in 2019, praised for its willingness to blend progressive metal, hard rock, and extreme subgenres into a single framework. The follow-up Seeing the Elephant arrived in 2022, refining the band's layered compositional approach. Their technical guitar work and unpredictable song structures distinguish them within the modern melodic death metal field.
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