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Divine (2024)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels groove metal, metalcore, and thrash metal with a focus on breakneck tempos and razor-sharp riff attacks. Formed in 2020, based in Milan, every track is a masterclass in controlled chaos and kinetic energy.
San Fernando Valley's Extinction have been fusing thrash and death metal since 2020, drawing on Southern California's long relationship with extreme music to produce something that honors both traditions. The Valley's sprawling suburban geography seems to fuel a certain restless, aggressive energy in the bands it produces.
Florida's Extinction Coefficient launched in 2022 weaving progressive metal's architectural ambition into a metalcore framework, creating music that demands active listening alongside its physical impact. The Andover origin places them outside the state's major scenes, lending their work an independent, exploratory quality.
Death metal, melodic death metal, and metalcore band from Vaasa, Finland active since 2013. They bring modern extreme metal from the Ostrobothnian coast.
Moscow-based metalcore and thrash metal act, active since 2017 delivering Bay Area velocity married to Teutonic heaviness. Rooted in one of Eastern Europe's most extreme metal communities, circle-pit fuel delivered with workmanlike consistency.
The Italian city of Ancona serves as headquarters for this death metal, groove metal, and metalcore operation, whose arsenal includes Florida-school brutality with modern precision. The riffs hit with blunt-force trauma, leaving no room for subtlety.
Wielding metalcore as their weapon, this Russian outfit from Moscow has been refining their craft since 2022. Their sound hinges on At the Gates-influenced riffing meeting hardcore's visceral energy, delivered with ruthless intent.
Metalcore act from Frankfurt, Germany, delivering aggressive, breakdown-heavy compositions since 2013. Their isolation-referencing name captures the introspective quality beneath their metalcore's aggressive exterior.
Thrash/death metal and metalcore hybrid from Augsburg in Bavaria, Germany, blending three aggressive styles since 2015. Their discomfort-evoking name captures the harsh, unpleasant intensity of their genre-crossing approach.
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