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Slave to the Scalpel (2021)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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State Of Unrest (2023)
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New York's Death Immortal occupy the aggressive territory where thrash metal and metalcore overlap, delivering high-energy performances and technically informed riff work since 2014. The band takes classic thrash vocabulary and injects it with the hard-hitting urgency of modern hardcore-influenced metal.
Fierce Groove Metal / Metalcore from Austin.
Falls Church's Death Penalty have been handing down thrash metal verdicts since 2014, favoring tight riffing and velocity over any modern compromise. A relentless Northern Virginia outfit with no interest in leniency.
Death Rattle Disco is a metalcore/thrash metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2022. They combine metalcore's modern intensity with thrash metal's riffing prowess.
Georgia's Death Rift arrived in 2025 with a sound that bridges melodic death metal's emotional heft and metalcore's modern aggression, carving out a niche in the small-town Adairsville underground. Young and already driven by a clear, violent purpose.
Death Structure is a metalcore/deathcore band from Lens, France, formed in 2017. They construct devastating breakdowns from northern France.
Death Will Score is a metalcore band from Goslar in the Harz Mountains, active since 2004 and one of the earlier German acts to embrace the metalcore movement. Their two decades of work span the genre's evolution from its hardcore-leaning origins to its more technical, modern incarnation.
DeathQuest is a metalcore band from Le Mans, France, formed in 2024. They deliver questing metalcore from western France.
Deathtrip is a death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Bremen, Germany, active since 2014. They blend death/thrash aggression with the modern dynamics of metalcore.
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