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Actin' Up (2023)
Featured Stoner Metal Album
The Mountain Of Gold (2018)
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Featured Progressive Metal Album
Death Atlas (2019)
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Heavy metalcore act from Moscow, formed in 2021. CarVent merges traditional metal with hardcore intensity.
San Diego act blending metalcore's melodic structures with the groove-driven punch of death metal and down-tuned heaviness, formed in 2024.
Cast Adrift from Dallas, NC merge melodic death metal's hook-forward songwriting with metalcore's rhythmic punch, leaning hard into dual-guitar melody over breakdowns.
Connecticut's Cast in Blood occupy the cross-section of melodic death and metalcore, favoring driving tempos and clean-to-harsh vocal contrast over the more abrasive end of the death metal spectrum.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Oulu, Finland, formed in 2016. They blend melodic sensibilities with metalcore dynamics from northern Finland.
Castle Ultra from Rancho Cucamonga blend melodic death metal's harmonic richness with metalcore's structural dynamics, layering clean melodic passages against heavier, breakdown-driven sections.
Death metal, thrash, and metalcore band from Wolgast on the Baltic coast of Germany, active since 2001. With over two decades of activity, Castoreum are seasoned veterans of the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern metal scene.
Catalysis channels the Tampa thrash tradition with aggressive, tightly wound riffing and barked vocals that recall the late-80s Bay Area and Florida crossover scenes. Their approach is direct and punishing, favoring speed and groove over technical showboating.
Hard-hitting metalcore from Austin.
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