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An Illinois metalcore outfit formed in 2016, WitchHammer bring aggressive riffing and hardcore-influenced intensity to a genre already saturated with extremity. Without a city listed, they seem deliberately low-profile, letting the music do the talking under the numerically marked "witchhammer666" Bandcamp tag. They occupy the harder-hitting end of the metalcore spectrum.
Port Huron, Michigan's With or Without formed in 2020 and bring a progressive dimension to their metalcore foundation, stretching song structures and harmonic ideas further than the genre's more orthodox practitioners. The progressive metalcore space has become increasingly crowded, but a band emerging from small-city Michigan brings a different hunger to the table. Their Bandcamp presence suggests a band serious about craft and musical growth.
With Passion formed in Sacramento, California in 2002, drawing from European melodic death metal — particularly At the Gates and Dissection — and the technical metalcore emerging from the US and Canada in the early 2000s. The band released two albums on Earache Records, In the Midst of Bloodied Soil (2005) and What We See When We Shut Our Eyes (2007), before disbanding that same year. Though short-lived, they were noted for their technical precision and the blackened edge they brought to the melodic metalcore sound.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Äänekoski, Finland emerging in 2025. Withered Petunia brings a fresh take on melodic aggression from the small central Finnish town.
Metalcore band from Königsee/Rudolstadt, Germany formed in 2020. Without Words delivers heavy breakdowns and aggressive vocals rooted in modern metalcore from the Thuringian Forest region.
Philadelphia's Witness to the End emerged in 2020 as a hybrid act pulling from both death metal's ferocity and metalcore's structural dynamics, sitting at a crossroads that Philly's heavy scene has long made its home. Their name, drawn out in full across their Bandcamp URL, signals a theatrical intensity that carries into their music — dramatic, heavy, and uncompromising. They reflect a new wave of East Coast acts willing to blur genre lines without losing their edge.
Five-piece metalcore band from Basel, Switzerland reigniting the spirit of 2000s metalcore with a modern edge. Their release The Rise of Alga showcases intense guitar riffs, relentless drumming, and confrontational lyrics that cut straight to the core.
A metalcore band from Winston-Salem, North Carolina, formed in 2018, Written in Gray work within the genre's dual-mode language of aggression and melody without veering into the pop-adjacent territory that defines many of their peers. They represent the more earnest, guitar-driven wing of the contemporary metalcore scene.
San Jose, California's Wrvth have one of the more interesting trajectories in extreme metal, beginning as a technical death metal and deathcore act before gradually shifting toward progressive post-metal and metalcore over the course of their career since 2010. The evolution is genuine rather than expedient, with each era of the band producing work that's stylistically distinct but consistently ambitious.
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