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Metalcore band from Santiago de Compostela, Spain, formed in 2018. They deliver heavy breakdowns and dynamic songwriting from the Galician capital.
Viennese thrash metal and metalcore act blending aggressive riffing with hardcore breakdowns. They combine the speed and technicality of thrash with the intensity and structure of modern metalcore.
Metalcore band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They deliver heavy breakdowns and dynamic songwriting from the Finnish capital.
Death metal and metalcore band from Gloucester, England, active since 2008. They blend death metal aggression with metalcore dynamics from the Severn Valley.
Caliban formed in Hattingen, Germany in 1997 under the name Never Again, taking their current name from Shakespeare's The Tempest and relocating to Essen. One of Germany's longest-running metalcore acts, the band released their debut A Small Boy and a Grey Heaven in 1999 and have since issued thirteen studio albums, including Ghost Empire (2014) which entered the German charts at number seven. Their 2025 album Back from Hell marks over a quarter-century of continuous activity.
Metalcore and thrash metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2013. They merge the breakdowns and aggression of metalcore with the speed and riff-driven intensity of thrash.
Death metal and deathcore band from Duisburg, Germany, active since 2007. They combine the aggression of death metal with metalcore's breakdowns and melodic elements from the industrial Ruhr region.
Death metal, thrash, and metalcore act from Virneburg, Germany, formed in 2019. They channel a genre-crossing assault from the rural Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate.
Melodic death metal and metalcore band from Manchester, England, formed in 2016. They blend melodic death metal with metalcore dynamics from the heart of northern England.
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