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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
Featured Black Metal Album
Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Hailing from Peru, Indiana, To My Dismay blend melodic death metal's harmonic bite with metalcore's structural punch, carving a melodically driven but heavier-than-expected sound from their small-town Midwest roots since 2018.
Today We Rise is a metalcore band from Würzburg, Germany, active since 2008. They deliver aggressive metalcore from the Franconian wine country.
Perry, Georgia's Tombstone Blue bring a groove metal swagger to their metalcore sound, favoring heavy, syncopated rhythms and arena-sized hooks in a combination that owes as much to Pantera as it does to the modern metalcore world.
Minneapolis metalcore act Tomorrow Brings New Blood have been bringing groove-driven heaviness to the Twin Cities since 2012, combining metalcore's melodic aggression with groove metal's hard-hitting rhythmic emphasis in a sound built for live impact.
Tomorrow We Die Again from Görlitz on the Polish border blend melodic death metal with metalcore intensity, their fatalistic name driving urgent, emotionally charged compositions since 2023. Their easternmost-German location adds a border-zone restlessness to their aggressive melodicism.
Hailing from Philadelphia, Tomorrow Will Be Worse are a metalcore band formed in 2020 whose name doubles as a bleak manifesto. Their Philly roots suggest a city-hardened edge to the genre's familiar tension between melody and aggression.
Tone Glass emerged from Inverness, Florida in 2022 fusing melodic death metal's harmonic sensibility with metalcore's rhythmic punch and breakdown-driven dynamics. It's a blend common to small-town Florida scenes where genre lines blur freely, and their Bandcamp presence points to an active young act still finding its footing.
Madison, Wisconsin's Too Fond of Flames have been at it since 2012, threading melodic death metal's lead-guitar lyricism through the structural DNA of metalcore. It's a well-worn pairing, but their decade-plus of activity suggests a band that has developed genuine craft and a loyal local following.
Kissimmee, Florida's Tooms emerged in 2018 grafting groove metal's hip-swinging heaviness onto a metalcore skeleton, resulting in the kind of melodic, rhythmically locked sound that translates well in a live setting. Their MA genre tag of "melodic groove metal/metalcore" captures the balance precisely.
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