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Let You Go (2024)
Featured Doom Metal Album
The Bestiary (2025)
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Featured Metalcore Album
Halo (2017)
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Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Berlin and Rostock, Germany, active since 2001. Their deliberate misspelling of "entropy" hints at the controlled chaos within their blend of melodic death metal and hardcore energy.
Metalcore band from Arnao in Asturias, Spain, formed in 2013. They bring intense, breakdown-driven metalcore from Spain's northern coast.
Pennsylvania metalcore unit Envision craft emotionally charged heaviness with melodic hooks and punishing breakdowns, holding down the Keystone State's scene since 2018.
Crushing Melodic Death Metal / Metalcore from Houston.
Death metal and metalcore band from Toulon on the French Riviera, formed in 2019. They deliver modern extreme metal from the Mediterranean coast.
Epic Power Metal / Metalcore out of Texas.
Part of Italy's underrated but thriving metal community, this act channels death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal with a focus on labyrinthine song structures built on chromatic riff mazes. Formed in 2016, based in Bassano del Grappa (Vicenza), the focus remains squarely on devastating rhythmic impact.
Metalcore act from Saarbrucken, Germany, delivering aggressive, breakdown-driven compositions since 2015. Their name suggests finality and conclusion, driving a sound built on metalcore's most intense dynamics.
Melodic death metal and metalcore act from Jindrichuv Hradec in southern Bohemia, Czech Republic, fusing melodic intensity with hardcore energy since 2017. Their approach bridges the harmonic richness of melodic death metal with metalcore's rhythmic breakdowns.
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