COGNITIVE
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.
Official COGNITIVE Merch at Impericon
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COGNITIVE Shows
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COGNITIVE Discography
5 tracks
- 1 In the Form of a Drone 3:28
- 2 Falling Skies 2:53
- 3 Numbered and Slaughtered 3:08
- 4 Essence Oblivion 2:08
- 5 The Horrid Swarm 2:49
10 tracks
- 1 Cut The F*** Up 4:11
- 2 The Aftermath 3:11
- 3 Blood Hungry 3:15
- 4 Worlds Beneath 3:24
- 5 Regurgitated Existence 3:36
- 6 Oceanic Erosion 1:59
- 7 Willingness Of The Weak 2:32
- 8 Imbuing Of Wrath 3:25
- 9 Fire From The Sky 3:22
- 10 Affliction Humanity 2:27
5 tracks
- 1 In The Form Of A Drone 3:28
- 2 Falling Skies 2:53
- 3 Numbered And Slaughtered 3:08
- 4 Essence Oblivion 2:08
- 5 The Horrid Swarm 2:49
9 tracks
- 1 Awakening the Miscreation 1:39
- 2 Birthing the Deformity 3:45
- 3 Haunted Justice 3:40
- 4 Beneath the Floorboards 3:22
- 5 The Forgotten 3:53
- 6 Dead Soil 4:17
- 7 The Cull 3:11
- 8 Wraiths 2:47
- 9 Merciless Forest 3:51
1 track
- 1 Haunted Justice 3:40
10 tracks
- 1 Omnicide 4:18
- 2 Architect of Misery 2:45
- 3 Matricide 5:25
- 4 False Profit 3:11
- 5 With Reckless Abandon 2:46
- 6 Clouds of Rust 5:33
- 7 Fragmented Perception 4:12
- 8 Vessel of Violence 3:28
- 9 Torn from the Void 6:10
- 10 Denouement 3:02
10 tracks
- 1 Eniac 4:47
- 2 The Maw 3:18
- 3 Arterial Red 3:41
- 4 From the Depths 3:39
- 5 Oroborous 2:55
- 6 To Feed the Worms 4:03
- 7 Malevolent Thoughts 3:57
- 8 Tearing Tendon from Bone 3:46
- 9 Destitute 5:46
- 10 Of a Hastened Extinction 3:27
1 track
- 1 To Feed the Worms 4:03
1 track
- 1 Eniac 4:47
10 tracks
- 1 Abhorrence 3:16
- 2 Insidious 3:15
- 3 A Pact Unholy 3:25
- 4 Ivory Tower 3:14
- 5 As the Light Fades 4:36
- 6 Savor the Suffering 2:57
- 7 Containment Breach 3:06
- 8 Rorschach 4:31
- 9 Lunar Psychopathy 3:18
- 10 Cold Dead Hands 4:05
1 track
- 1 A Pact Unholy 3:25
1 track
- 1 Abhorrence 3:16
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