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Independence, Missouri deathcore act with roots going back to 2007, combining the technical brutality of death metal with the breakdown-driven structure and vocal aggression that defines the deathcore template. They are among the longer-running acts in a subgenre prone to short lifespans.
The Sideline Haters from Compiègne deliver deathcore from the Oise department north of Paris since 2015. A decade of breakdown-driven aggression from this historically significant Picardy town has produced compositions of confrontational intensity.
San Francisco's The Undying fuse symphonic orchestration with technical death metal brutality and deathcore breakdowns, a combination that has driven their sound since forming in 2011. Their music is uncompromising in its ambition, stacking complexity and cinematic scale into the same passages.
Cincinnati's The Vile Doctrine blend deathcore's breakdown-heavy architecture with the putrid mid-tempo grind of old-school death metal, crafting a sound that sits at the uglier, more aggressive end of the Ohio underground since their 2020 formation.
The Walls Concave from Potsdam outside Berlin deliver a claustrophobic fusion of deathcore and grindcore, their name evoking the closing-in sensation of their crushing sound since 2011. Their compositions pair deathcore's breakdown-driven heaviness with grindcore's chaotic velocity from Brandenburg.
Chapel Hill's The White Tomb approach deathcore with technical precision, layering complex riffing and unpredictable song structures onto the genre's brutalist framework — an approach that has kept them one of North Carolina's more intellectually rigorous extreme metal acts since 2011.
Thirteen Bled Promises from Madrid deliver deathcore with the visceral, blood-soaked imagery their name evokes since 2010. Over a decade and a half of activity from the Spanish capital, they have honed their approach to breakdown-driven brutality.
Buffalo, New York's This Eternal Cold occupy the brutal overlap between black metal's corrosive atmosphere and deathcore's bone-crushing breakdowns, a combination as bleak as the city's winters.
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