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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Denver metalcore project named after the Egyptian god of the necropolis. Ancient funerary rites through modern aggression.
San Luis Obispo, California groove metal/metalcore act from the Central Coast. Today We Fight delivers the muscular riffing and breakdown-heavy approach that defined early 2010s metalcore.
Lakeland, Florida groove metal/metalcore act with four releases spanning 2014-2019. Their Central Florida sound balances groove-driven heaviness with metalcore's dynamic shifts and melodic hooks.
Minneapolis death metal and grindcore hybrid that emerged in 2010 with the Fear & Coercion EP. The band fuses blistering speed with metalcore breakdowns, drawing from the Twin Cities' long tradition of extreme music.
Ambiviolence delivers metalcore from Warsaw as of 2025. Their portmanteau of ambivalence and violence captures the emotional tension driving their breakdown-heavy compositions from the Polish capital.
Ambryo fuses death metal, melodic death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal from Paris since 2014, casting a wide net across the extreme metal spectrum. Their embryonic name suggests a constantly evolving project that has not yet reached its final form.
Ameks delivers melodic death metal and metalcore from Moscow since 2013. Over a decade in the Russian capital, they have refined their blend of Scandinavian melodicism and modern metalcore dynamics.
Oregon metalcore project. The gambling metaphor channels Pacific Northwest aggression through Russian roulette's deadly chance.
Amokschlaf is a two-person metal project from the Ruhr region of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, describing themselves as a projectile loaded with homemade metal from their own production workshop. Their German-language releases including In Mir, Friss, and Kalt reflect a self-sufficient, DIY approach to aggressive metal with all composition and production handled in-house.
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