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Hailing from New Jersey, Cognitive emerged in 2011 as a ferocious hybrid of technical death metal and deathcore, building from deathcore roots into a sophisticated extreme metal outfit marked by dissonant riffing, volatile time signatures, and the visceral contrast of blast beats against crushing breakdowns. Signed to Unique Leader and later Metal Blade Records, the band steadily elevated their craft across albums including Matricide and Malevolent Thoughts of a Hastened Extinction (2021), cementing their standing among the sharper acts in the modern American death metal underground.
New York's Cognitive Collapse push technical death metal into experimental territory, warping song structures and tonality into something disorienting and deeply unsettling.
Minneapolis's Cognitive Dissonance ride a thrash and grindcore collision course — tightly wound songs explode with short-fuse aggression and a political edge that has defined their underground run.
Melodic death metal and deathcore band from Leeds, England, active since 2013. They blend melodic sensibilities with extreme metal dynamics from Yorkshire.
Ruthless Grindcore / Technical Death Metal from Dallas.
Glendale, California's Cogort deploy a grinding death metal assault characterized by blunt-force rhythms, guttural vocal punishment, and a compulsion to keep songs fast and mean.
Groove-thrash metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, formed in 2021. They combine heavy rhythmic grooves with thrash metal speed and aggression.
Coheed and Cambria have been rock's most ambitious storytellers since forming in Nyack, New York in 1995, with vocalist Claudio Sanchez weaving a sprawling science fiction narrative called 'The Amory Wars' across their entire discography. Their sound fuses progressive rock complexity with post-hardcore urgency and power-pop hooks, producing anthems like 'Welcome Home' and 'A Favor House Atlantic' that transcend their conceptual framework. Sanchez's unmistakable high vocals and the band's refusal to simplify their vision have made them a singular force in modern rock.
Coherence is a progressive metal band from Campinas, São Paulo state, Brazil, active since 2016. The band has released albums including "Of Alternate Spaces" and an EP, with a 2020 remastered edition of "Of Alternate Spaces" available on their Bandcamp page. Their music blends progressive metal structures with experimental and atmospheric elements.
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