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Spacecorpse is a technical death metal and deathcore band from Boulder, Colorado, formed in 2020. They combine the precision and complexity of technical death metal with the structural aggression of deathcore, representing the heavier end of Colorado's growing extreme metal scene.
Species Splicer is a Lynnwood, Washington band formed in 2017 that operates in the overlapping territory of blackened brutal death metal and deathcore. Their sound grafts the chromatic density and guttural extremity of brutal death metal onto deathcore's breakdown-heavy architecture, with black metal atmosphere woven throughout.
Spinal Fluid is a Minneapolis slam and brutal death metal band formed in 2025, focused on the pit-ready downtuned breakdowns and guttural extremity that define the slam subgenre.
Spiteful Visions is a Minneapolis death metal and deathcore band formed in 2022, incorporating melodic and technical death metal elements alongside deathcore breakdowns for a multifaceted approach to extreme metal.
Los Angeles progressive death metal and deathcore act Sporemacide formed in 2025, combining the technical ambition of progressive metal with the heaviness of death metal and deathcore.
Stabbing Serenade is a death metal and deathcore band from Athens, Georgia, formed in 2024, combining deathcore's breakdown-driven aggression with the technical and melodic elements of contemporary death metal.
Atlanta, Georgia death metal and deathcore band formed in 2024, Starved of Light combines the brutal riffing and technical heaviness of death metal with the structural breakdown elements of deathcore.
Steve Irwin is a deathcore band from Phoenix, Arizona, formed in 2015. Named provocatively after the late wildlife conservationist, the band delivers the crushing breakdowns, blast beats, and death metal-influenced riffing central to the deathcore genre.
Hertford, North Carolina deathcore outfit active since 2010, delivering punishing breakdowns and low-tuned brutality drawn from the death metal and deathcore traditions of the American Southeast.
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