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Salinas, California deathcore project whose releases Gateways to Nihility and Legion...Thou Hath Defiled channel mythological and biblical horror through crushing breakdowns. Named after the Minotaur's given name from Borges — literary brutality from the Salad Bowl of the World.
Denver death metal and deathcore project whose 2013 EP Solipsis explores the philosophical question of whether only one's own mind can be known to exist. Existential heaviness from the Mile High City.
Las Vegas deathcore project whose 2017 EP Cease The Plague Of Despair delivers crushing breakdowns from the desert entertainment capital. The name evokes a mental ward consumed by fire.
Suisun City/Napa, California deathcore project whose 2016 EP chetirye — Russian for 'four' — brings multilingual mysticism to Bay Area breakdowns.
Tucson deathcore act delivering crushing superiority-themed breakdowns from the Arizona desert, adding savage intensity to the Southwest's extreme metal landscape.
Brutal Technical Death Metal / Deathcore from New Braunfels.
Brutal Deathcore from El Paso.
Hardinsburg, Kentucky deathcore project with seven releases since 2013. Broadcasting To The Nations and subsequent albums demonstrate a prolific commitment to crushing breakdowns from one of Kentucky's most rural communities.
A death metal/deathcore band from Chesapeake, Virginia active since 2010, continuing to operate independently in the underground scene.
Collinsville, Illinois act Barbed Wire Sandwich occupies the convergence of slam, brutal death metal, and deathcore, bringing the genre's most physically punishing characteristics together under one deliberately confrontational name.
Brutal Symphonic Deathcore from Pennsylvania /.
Crushing Brutal Deathcore from Orange, California / West Jordan, Utah / Houston.
Crushing Deathcore from San Antonio.
Heavy Deathcore from San Antonio.
A brutal deathcore band from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, Cadaverous Contingency melds the crushing low-end devastation of brutal death metal with the breakdowns and rhythmic aggression of deathcore.
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