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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Make It Rain / On the Other Side of Tonight (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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This Broken Machine from Milan blend progressive metal and metalcore with alternative rock influences since 2012. Over a decade of malfunctioning-machine compositions from the Lombardy capital.
A Seattle metalcore band carrying the Pacific Northwest's history of heavy music, This Dying Hour have been grinding since 2006 with a style that balances melodic tension against hardcore-derived aggression.
A Richmond, Virginia metalcore band since 2016, This Present Darkness channel the city's storied heavy music scene into dense, aggressive compositions built on thick riffs and high-contrast dynamic shifts.
Daytona Beach's This Solemn Vow have been sharpening their metalcore-meets-thrash attack since 2014, bringing a riff-forward intensity that leans into speed and groove in equal measure.
From Prestonsburg, a small town in Eastern Kentucky's coal country, This Town Has Ghosts channel melodic death metal hooks and metalcore heft into music that feels rooted in both regional identity and broader extremity.
Thousand Years is a melodic death/groove metal/metalcore band from Lohja, Finland, active since 2010. They merge melodic death metal, groove metal, and metalcore into a dynamic hybrid.
ThousandDead is a metalcore/thrash/groove metal band from Rethymno on the island of Crete, active since 2017. Their music fuses metalcore intensity with thrash speed and groove power from the shores of the Mediterranean.
Los Angeles, California metalcore act formed in 2022, entering a city with an enormous and competitive heavy music scene and aiming to carve out space within contemporary metalcore's blend of crushing breakdowns and melodic tension.
Threshold Sicks from Perth in Scotland deliver thrash metal and metalcore with the punning sickness their name implies since 2007. Nearly two decades from the Fair City has produced compositions that push past the threshold of intensity.
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