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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Playlist: The Very Best of Corrosion of Conformity (2010)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Death-thrash metal band from Mönchengladbach, Germany founded in 2005, featuring Sebastian Meisen on vocals, Christian Neumann and Felix Lemmen on guitars/bass, and Selim Karakoc on drums. After a hiatus from 2013-2019, they returned with renewed force, releasing Beast Inside, Pure Purge, and the 2025 album Rise of Independence.
New Orleans' Wasted Creation formed in 2020 at the punishing convergence of technical death metal and deathcore, drawing on a city whose musical DNA runs unusually deep even for extreme metal. The technical sophistication of their death metal side coexists with the sheer brutality of deathcore in a way that feels native to a city that has always blended traditions without hesitation. They arrived ready to inflict serious damage.
Technical death metal and deathcore band from Málaga, Spain active since 2013. Wasting the Genesis fuses intricate technical death metal with deathcore's punishing breakdowns, delivering precision-driven extremity from Andalusia.
Multi-genre project from Jaén, Spain active since 2017, evolving from heavy metal through technical death/thrash metal to post-rock. Witchshire's stylistic journey reflects an ambitious creative vision that refuses to be confined to a single genre.
Brutal and technical death metal band from Madrid, Spain active since 1999, renowned as one of the most technically proficient extreme metal acts in Europe. Wormed's sci-fi themed brutality channels quantum physics and cosmic horror through impossibly dense, hyper-technical death metal that has earned them an international following.
Technical death metal band from Leipzig, Germany formed in 2016. Wound Spreader delivers intricate, precision-driven death metal built on complex rhythms and technical virtuosity from the Saxon underground.
Charlotte, North Carolina melodic technical deathcore and death metal band formed in 2018, known for intricate guitar work and the kind of precision-engineered brutality that defines the technical end of the deathcore spectrum. One of the Southeast's more accomplished acts in the technically demanding hybrid of deathcore and death metal.
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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