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Cast Adrift from Dallas, NC merge melodic death metal's hook-forward songwriting with metalcore's rhythmic punch, leaning hard into dual-guitar melody over breakdowns.
Connecticut's Cast in Blood occupy the cross-section of melodic death and metalcore, favoring driving tempos and clean-to-harsh vocal contrast over the more abrasive end of the death metal spectrum.
Castle Ultra from Rancho Cucamonga blend melodic death metal's harmonic richness with metalcore's structural dynamics, layering clean melodic passages against heavier, breakdown-driven sections.
Catalysis channels the Tampa thrash tradition with aggressive, tightly wound riffing and barked vocals that recall the late-80s Bay Area and Florida crossover scenes. Their approach is direct and punishing, favoring speed and groove over technical showboating.
Hard-hitting metalcore from Austin.
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Visalia, California melodic death metal band blending metalcore song structures with the melodic riffing and aggressive vocal delivery of the Scandinavian melodic death metal tradition.
Sacramento metalcore band combining catchy melodic hooks with brutal, heavy riffing rooted in mid-2000s metalcore.
Brooklyn sludge metal outfit with ex-members of Nausea and Born Against, churning out discordant, noise-rock-infected heaviness blending hardcore abrasion, sludge crawl, and death metal ugliness.
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