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Proof (2024)
Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
05/07 @ House of Blues Myrtle Beach, North Myrtle Beach
Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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England-based deathcore act active since 2026, fusing death metal's guttural extremity with metalcore's breakdown-heavy dynamics and modern production aesthetics. Their compositions alternate between blasting intensity and crushing, floor-dropping breakdowns.
Spanish thrash metal and metalcore band from Tarragona, formed in 2022. They break the silence with aggressive thrash-infused metalcore from Catalonia.
Volzhsky-based metalcore act active since 2019, merging hardcore punk's confrontational energy with heavy metal's technical ambition. Their compositions trade between aggressive breakdowns and melodic passages with the dynamic range that defines the genre.
German melodic death metal and metalcore band from Greifswald on the Baltic coast, formed in 2011. They craft melodic death metal with metalcore intensity from Germany's far northeast.
Belluno-based power metal act active since 2013, delivering anthemic heavy metal built on soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and melodic guitar leads. Their compositions embrace the genre's tradition of epic songwriting and technical proficiency.
Metalcore act from Pierrelatte in southeastern France, active since 2001. One of France's longer-running metalcore outfits, they have weathered the genre's evolution over more than two decades.
German metalcore band from North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2020. They deliver monolithic metalcore breakdowns with crushing intensity.
Budapest-based melodic death metal/metalcore act active since 2021, blending Gothenburg-inspired guitar harmonies with metalcore's dynamic structures and breakdown-driven intensity. Their sound bridges the melodic death metal tradition with modern extreme metal's visceral energy.
German metalcore and melodic death metal band from Frauenau in the Bavarian Forest, formed in 2011. They combine metalcore dynamics with melodic death metal influences from rural Bavaria.
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