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Death Will Score is a metalcore band from Goslar in the Harz Mountains, active since 2004 and one of the earlier German acts to embrace the metalcore movement. Their two decades of work span the genre's evolution from its hardcore-leaning origins to its more technical, modern incarnation.
DeathQuest is a metalcore band from Le Mans, France, formed in 2024. They deliver questing metalcore from western France.
Deathtrip is a death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Bremen, Germany, active since 2014. They blend death/thrash aggression with the modern dynamics of metalcore.
Tampa's Deathtruck arrived in 2018 hauling a payload of melodic death, groove, and metalcore influences that reflects the eclecticism of Florida's fertile metal scene. A heavy hybrid with a Florida death metal pedigree underwriting every breakdown.
Deathwish is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Opwijk, Flemish Brabant, Belgium, formed in 2016 with members drawn from Dawn of Clarity and the Belgian cult act Endor. Their 2019 self-titled five-track EP introduced a sound that balances melodic death metal's harmonic vocabulary with metalcore's structural weight.
Wheeling's Debility has been developing a metalcore-inflected melodic death metal sound in the Chicago suburbs since 2016, threading aggressive death metal urgency through melodic frameworks built for staying in your head long after the riffs stop. Technical without being sterile.
A collision of death metal brutality, metalcore aggression, and grindcore speed, Debtors emerged from the Chicago/LA underground in 2020 with no patience for genre boundaries. Their sound hits like a freight train that changes tracks mid-collision.
Decadence Incarnate is a melodic death metal and thrash metal band from Gotland, Sweden, formed in 2019. The project channels aggressive melodeath and thrash from the Baltic island.
Reno's December doesn't pick sides — death metal brutality and metalcore urgency coexist in their sound like fault lines ready to rupture. Active since 2014, they've developed a hybrid attack that channels the bleakness of the Nevada high desert into punishing, breakneck songs.
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