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Oklahoma City metalcore project. The absent — lost or disappeared — channeled through aggressive music.
Metal band from Fribourg, Switzerland, with roots going back over five studio albums and 300-plus concerts before a 2019 rebranding toward a darker, more haunting sound. Their 2022 EP "Follow Blindly," produced by Vladimir Cochet at Conatus Studios, draws on death metal and hardcore influences to address themes of blind obedience and societal complicity.
Seattle metalcore act arriving in 2025 with the Blood On Our Hands EP. Their name — Latin for 'love conquers' — sets up an interesting tension with the brutality of their sound, emerging from a Pacific Northwest scene that continues to breed boundary-pushing heavy bands.
Los Angeles metalcore project. Aquatic-sounding heaviness from the City of Angels.
Washington metalcore project.
An Ocean Between Us delivers metalcore from Italy since 2009, their evocative name suggesting the emotional distance that their intense, breakdown-heavy compositions attempt to bridge. Their longevity speaks to the enduring appeal of their emotionally charged approach.
Anaya is a blackened metalcore band from Nuremberg, Germany, formed in 2017, fusing black metal's atmospheric hostility with metalcore's breakdowns and aggressive vocal dynamics. The band represents the growing crossover between extreme metal and hardcore within the Franconian metal scene.
Ancient Immortality creates metalcore from Moscow since 2020. Their paradoxical name — the old that never dies — brings a timeless quality to the contemporary aggression of their metalcore compositions.
Ancst is a Berlin-based band blending blackened metalcore, cyber crust, and dark ambient, describing themselves as 'blackened MxC and cyber crust by day, dark ambient by night.' Their extensive discography includes albums like Neural Collapse, Dominion, Culture of Brutality, and Binary Wrath, and the band maintains an active European touring schedule with dates across the continent.
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