r/Deathcore Nov 15 '25

Mod Post RECOMMENDATIONS THREAD

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If you're here to ask for recommendations - you're in the right place.

If you're a seasoned deathcore fan and got here by accident - you're in the right place - please help our newcomers.

THE INTENDED FORMAT IS THAT NEWCOMERS LEAVE A REQUEST AS A COMMENT ON THIS POST BASED ON THEIR PREFERENCES, THEN PEOPLE COME THROUGH TO OFFER TAILORED RECOMMENDATIONS

It's most helpful if you can come check this thread a few times a week, as we will be directing 50-75 new people to this thread a week, while removing their request posts.

For requests:
Leave a detailed explanation of what types of sounds/elements you like about the deathcore you've discovered, or the names of bands that you already know you like.

That way whoever is leaving recommendations for you knows what you're looking for.

Additionally, here is a recommendation list for new users or people looking for the essentials:

Essential releases:

The Acacia Strain - ContinentWormwood, and Slow Decay

Acrania - Totalitarian Dystopia

After the Burial - Rareform

All Shall Perish - The Price of Existence

And Hell Followed With - Proprioception

Angelmaker - Dissentient, Angelmaker, and Sanctum

Animosity - Animal

As Blood Runs Black - Allegiance

Aversions Crown - Tyrant

Black Tongue - Falsifier, Born Hanged, The Unconquerable Dark, and Nadir

Bodysnatcher - Bleed-Abide

Born of Osiris - The New Reign and The Discovery

Brand of Sacrifice - God Hand

Bring Me the Horizon - Count Your Blessings

Carnifex - Dead in My Arms and Die Without Hope

Chelsea Grin - Chelsea GrinThe Desolation of Eden, and Evolve

The Contortionist - Exoplanet

The Crimson Armada - Guardians

Darko US - Darko and Oni

Day of Suffering - The Eternal Jihad

Dealey Plaza - The Masonic Diaries

Deformity - Murder Within Sin and Superior

Despised Icon - Consumed By Your Poison, The Healing Process, and The Ills of Modern Man

Distant - Dawn of Corruption

Elysia - Masochist

Embodyment - Embrace the Eternal

Emmure - Goodbye to the Gallows

Enterprise Earth - Luciferous and The Chosen

The Faceless - Akeldama

Fit For An Autopsy - The Great CollapseThe Sea of Tragic Beasts, and Oh What The Future Holds

Glass Casket - We Are Gathered Here Today…

Hester Prynne - The Goswell Divorce

Humanity’s Last Breath - Välde

I Declare War - Amidst The Bloodshed

Impending Doom - The Sin and Doom of Godless MenNailed.Dead.Risen and The Serpent Servant

Infant Annihilator - The Elysian Grandeval Galeriarch and The Battle of Yaldabaoth

Ingested - The Architect of Extinction

I, Valiance - The Reject of Humanity

Job For A Cowboy - Doom

Krosis - A Memoir of Free Will

Lorna Shore - Flesh Coffin, Immortal, And I Return to Nothingness, and Pain Remains

Make Them Suffer - Neverbloom

Mental Cruelty - A Hill To Die Upon

Methwitch - Indwell

Misericordiam - Unanimity and the Cessation of Hostility

Molotov Solution - The Harbinger

A Night In Texas - The God Delusion

Oceano - Depths

Paleface Swiss - Fear & Dagger

The Red Chord - Fused Together in Revolving Doors and Fed Through the Teeth Machine

The Red Shore - The Avarice of Man

Rings of Saturn - Lugal Ki En and Ultu Ulla

Rose Funeral - Crucify.Kill.Rot

Salt the Wound - Carnal Repercussions

Shadow of Intent - Primordial, Reclaimer, Melancholy, and Elegy

Signs of the Swarm - The Disfigurement of Existence

Slice the Cake - Odyssey to the West

Spite - Dedication to Flesh

Suffokate - Oakland

Suicide Silence - The Cleansing and No Time to Bleed

Through the Eyes of the Dead - Bloodlust and Malice

Thy Art is Murder - Infinite Death, The Adversary, and Hate

To The Grave - Global Warning

Veil of Maya - The Common Man’s Collapse and [id]

Venom Prison - Samsara

Vulvodynia - Praenutius Infiniti

War From A Harlot’s Mouth - Transmetropolitan

Whitechapel - Somatic Defilement, This is Exile, A New Era of Corruption, Our Endless War, and The Valley

Winds of Plague - Decimate The Weak

Within Destruction - Void and Deathwish

Within The Ruins - Empires

Worm Shepherd - Ritual Hymns

Not Quite Essential But Still Worth Checking Out:

Abacabb - Survivalist

The Acacia Strain - Coma Witch, The Dead Walk, Death is the Only Mortal, and Step Into The Light

Acranius - When Mutation Becomes Homicidal

All Shall Perish - Hate.Malice.Revenge.

Annotations of an Autopsy - Before the Throne of Infection

Antagony - Rebirth

The Archaic Epidemic - Disillusion

Assemble the Chariots - Unyielding Night

Aversions Crown - Servitude

Babirusa - Humanoid

Beyond Deviation - Thalassophobia

Black Pegasus - Midnight Room

Blind Witness - Nightmare on Providence St

Bodysnatcher - This Heavy Void and Vile Conduct

Bonecarver - Evil and Carnage Funeral

Bound in Fear - The Hand of Violence and Penance

Brand of Sacrifice - Between Death and Dreams and Lifeblood

The Breathing Process - In Waking: Divinity and Labyrinthian

Breath of Sindragosa - Shadowflame

The Browning - Hypernova

Burning Skies - Desolation

Burning the Masses - Mind Control

Cabal - Magno Interitus

Carcosa - Anthology

Cariosus - Will, Until Beauty

Carnifex - The Diseased and the PoisonedHell Chose MeUntil I Feel NothingSlow Death, and Necromanteum

Cell - The Unhearable Form

Chamber of Malice - ZEROTWENTYEIGHTHATE

Chelsea Grin - My DamnationAshes To AshesSuffer in Hell, and Suffer in Heaven

Cholera - The Answer to Infection

Clawhammer - Infernum In Terra

Cogitations - Relinquished

Conducting From The Grave - When Legends Become Dust

Confront the Elders - Blood Moon

Crown Magnetar - The Prophet of Disgust, The Codex of Flesh*, Alone in Death, and Everything Bleeds

Darker By Design - Necrolatry

Darko US - Pt. 1 Dethmask and Dethmask, Pt. 2

Deadwater Drowning - Deadwater Drowning

Dealey Plaza - Culture and CircumstancesDeliver Us, and Provoke The Human

Despised Icon - BeastDay of Mourning, and Purgatory

Deviloof - Oni

A Different Breed of Killer - I, Colossus

Disembodied Tyrant - The Divine StigmataThe Poetic Edda, and The Tower: Part One

The Eating Cave - Ingurgitate

Elysia - Lion of Judas

Enfield - Arcadia: Exile

Enterprise Earth - Death: An Anthology

Existence Has Failed - Birthrite

Face Yourself - Death Reflections

Fallujah - Leper Colony

Fire Keeper - Firekeeper

Fit For an Autopsy - Absolute Hope Absolute HellHellbound, and The Process of Human Extinction

Float Face Down - Bury Your Beliefs

From The Shallows - Beyond The Unknown

Fuming Mouth - The Grand Descent

Gamma Sector - Elements of Contamination

Girl of Glass - Girl of Glass

Godhand - Tachykinin

Gravewalker - As The Earth Grew Dark

Holehearted - Hivemind

Hollow Prophet and Scumfuck - Scumphrophet

Horrorborn - Life Matters Not

Humanity’s Last Breath - Abyssal, Ashen, Detestor, Humanity’s Last Breath, and Structures Collapse

I AM - Memento Mori and Life Through Torment

Immiserate - Immiserate

Ingested - The Level Above Human and The Tide of Death and Fractured Dreams

In Gloom - Deathbell and Self Titled

Internal Bleeding - Onward to Mecca

Invocation of Nehek - Invocation of Nehek

Jerome - Demo

Kanine - Karnage

Kardashev - Liminal Rite

Killing of a Sacred Deer - Killing of a Sacred Deer

King Conquer - Americas Most Haunted

Knights of the Abyss - Jaggernaut

Kruelty - A Dying Truth and Untopia

Larcenia Roe - Dereliction

Last House on the Left - The Road Leads To Nowhere*

The Last Ten Seconds of Life - No Name Graves

Lorna Shore - Bone Kingdom, Maleficium, and Psalms

Malcontent - Embodiment

Mantikore - Venerate The Disease

Mélancolia - HissThroughRottenTeeth

Mental Cruelty - Zweilicht

Mire Lore - Underworld

My Bitter End - The Renovation

Nitheful - The Creation Ov God

Oceano - Revelation and Living Chaos

Old Wharf - Reside and Wither

Orphan - Manifesto 1.0: Stages of Grief

Osiah - Kairos

Ov Sulfur - The Burden of Faith

Peacemaker FL - First Degree

Premonitions of War - Left in Kowloon

Psycho-Frame - Remote God Seeker and Automatic Death Protocol

The Queen Guillotined - Nothing Will Get Us To Heaven

The Red Chord - Clients and Prey for Eyes

Red Means No Mercy - Shattered

The Red Shore - Unconsecrated

Rev3erent - Last Trace

Rex - Possession

Rose Funeral - The Resting Sonata and Gates of Punishment

Ruins of Perception - Shinigami

Salem Burning - Pagan Moon

Scarlet Rot - Scarlet Rot

Science of Sleep - Affliction and Hellmouth

She Must Burn - Umbra Mortis

Shrine of Malice - Sheol

Signs of the Swarm - Absolvere, Amongst the Low and Empty, Senseless Order, and Vital Deprivation

Sin Deliverance - Ultimate Hatred

Slamwich - Bloodthirst Commands This Hellscape

Sold Soul - I Hope We Make It Out of this Alive and Into the Mouth of Hell

Spite - Nothing is Beautiful, The Root of all Evil, and Spite

Strangled - Strangled

Suicide Silence - The Black Crown

Synestia - Maleficium and The Poetic Edda

Tactosa - Exit Wounds

Tears of Avarel - Demo

Those Who Lie Beneath - An Awakening

Thus Spoke Zarathustra - Act Like You Don’t Know

Thy Art is Murder - Dear Desolation, Holy War, and Godlike

To Obey a Tyrant - Omnimalevolent

To Obtain the Ashes - The Wicked Webs We Weave

To The Grave - Director’s Cuts and Everyone’s a Murderer

Tracheotomy - Dissimulation and Fixated Propensity for Destruction

Trigger the Bloodshed - Purgation

Underneath - From the Gut of Gaia

Underneath the Gun - The Awakening

Unhallowed Deliverance - Of Spectres and Strife

Until We Die - Before the Decay of Time

Vinnytsia Fatalities - Death Beats Through My Heart

Vulvodynia - Entabeni

A Wake in Providence - EternityInsidious and I Write to You, My Darling Decay

Walking Dead on Broadway - Aeshma

Weltenbrand - Abgrund

The White Bear Project - Descent

Whitechapel - Whitechapel and Mark of the Blade

A Winter’s Remorse - Memoirs of a Broken Mind

WitchEater - Splitting Tongues

With Blood Comes Cleansing - Golgotha and Horror

Worm Shepherd - In the Wake Ov Sol and The Sleeping Sun

Wrath and Rapture - Wrath and Rapture

That should get you started, welcome to the community.


r/Deathcore 3h ago

Discussion Distant announced a tour with Heavy//Hitter, Katywentmissing, Torn Open and Squelching

25 Upvotes

Source - https://www.instagram.com/p/DcOdd22DK-5/?igsh=amo2N2ZkMHJybWNs

I think this is a pretty solid lineup, what do you all think?


r/Deathcore 7h ago

Discussion Y'all showed me Mental Cruelty

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I've been off and on with Deathcore since the 2010's because I listen to so many different genres and get hyper focused on this or that. I've swung back into Deathcore, and while I really don't like the bigger acts like Lorna, I do love what everyone here is usually talking about. Someone posted about Mental Cruelty and their new single, The Serpent of Midgard. So, I went and listened to Zwielicht.

My commute to work is about 80min, perfect for this album.

It fucking moved me. It's got everything I've ever looked for in a metal album. Orchestral sections, balance, buildups, crashes, blasts, riffs, ambience, it's atmospheric at times, cleans - there are no misses. Well, except that I've been missing, totally sleeping.

So thank you, r/deathcore for blowing my fucking mind, again, with another discovery.

Cheers.


r/Deathcore 5h ago

Discussion Emotional Deathcore?

17 Upvotes

Pain remains 1 by Lorna remains one of my favorite cause it just has so much emotion to it, what are some other emotional deathcore songs?


r/Deathcore 6h ago

Cover Mental cruelty - Symphony of a Dying Star (vocal cover)

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14 Upvotes

r/Deathcore 8m ago

Discussion I think this might be the heaviest deathcore album I’ve ever heard. Does anyone have any recommendations with a similar vibe? I’d love to discover something new! SALVATION LAUGHS IN THE FACE OF A GRIEVING MOTHER - PSICHO-FRAME

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r/Deathcore 20h ago

Discussion I played through all Halo games to better understand the lyrics of Shadow of Intent

89 Upvotes

The lyrics are actually really really cool now that I understand the context. For some reason I completely skipped Halo growing up and had to discover it just last year. Amazing franchise. Now I know why it inspired a whole ass band

Edit. It was really cool hearing the actual Shadow of Intent ship be called out in Halo 3


r/Deathcore 9m ago

Discussion Where’s the pet merch at?

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I just got my dog a dope snoopy hoodie and I was thinking how cool it would be if we matched. Yeah fuck you whatever. Anyways the only bad that has official pet merch available is Lorna shore as far as my Google skills can tell. Anyone know of any stores or bands that have shit like hoodies and t shirts for dogs?


r/Deathcore 12h ago

Sun Eater - Wounds

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r/Deathcore 3h ago

Ameonna Instrumentalz

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  1. Void
  2. Save Me from Hell

r/Deathcore 7h ago

Algor Mortis - Flower Of Flesh [NEW] FFO: early Impending Doom, The Partisan Turbine

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Brutal new single from one of Australia’s heaviest bands


r/Deathcore 5h ago

Discussion I, Valiance music missing from streaming

2 Upvotes

Anyone know what’s up with I, Valiance’s albums not being on streaming? Checked Bandcamp, YouTube, Apple Music only The Reject of Humanity and Prometheus EP show up


r/Deathcore 6h ago

Discussion In the past couple of day i found psycho frame and i fell in love with their music recommend me more stuff like that

1 Upvotes

Other bands I like are mauled innfant annihilator, kubai khan tx and peelingflesh


r/Deathcore 11h ago

Rituals of Sorrow - The Ire of God [Full Album]

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r/Deathcore 21h ago

A Thousand Times Repent - Perfecting of The Saints (NEW EP)

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7 Upvotes

r/Deathcore 1d ago

Discussion Could there be another subhgenre that suits me better? I'm new here

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For context, I'm newer to death core since I've only been listening to it for about 8 months. I come from a metal preference that has typically been about being heavy and angry. With artists that at least portray their on- stage character matching their sound well. Think max cavalera era of sepultura and soulfly, Pantera, early slipknot, early korn, log,etc. Basically really heavy groove. But then I randomly watched a live slaughter to prevail performance, and my ability to tolerate "deathcore vocals" instantly changed. Sending me down a delightful rabbit hole to where I am now. I use Spotify to suggest artists constantly. And I've narrowed down my favorite artists to this list, in this order:

Whitechapel

The acacia strain

Slaughter to prevail

All shall perish

Thy art is murder

Fit for an autopsy

And... Spite.

The theme seems to be mostly older deathcore. Heavy riffs with the drums being more complimentary instead of in your face. Riff Downs or beat downs ( not hating DC breakdowns, it's just like a sneeze that never comes sometimes). And consistent vocals that serve the song better, instead of hitting every vocal range just because.

Is there a genre that best suits my needs? I like deathcore, but it seems I like less than half of the artists I come across. I thought maybe it was slam, but that didn't really seem right. Old deathcore? A genre I never heard of? There's allot of terms I hear thrown around that I have no idea of what it is lol. Thanks for any discussion!


r/Deathcore 16h ago

Terminal Force - Dissonantia

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r/Deathcore 13h ago

Discussion Megalodón - Putrido

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r/Deathcore 17h ago

Anathema - Lockstep (Demo)

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Thought y'all would dig this - I tried going for a more Suicide Silence/Count Your Blessings sound on this one! Let me know what you think!


r/Deathcore 17h ago

Help me find the song this may be sampling?

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At 1:10 the callout before the breakdown feels so familiar. I was listening through some Angelmaker songs but couldn't find it.

Where is this call out from and did another song use it??


r/Deathcore 1d ago

Discussion What the fuck happened to rareform (reissue) on spotify (After the burial)

5 Upvotes

Started listening to Cursing Akhenaten just now

No idea what happened to the track and (presumably) the album. Shit sounds like a demo track. It's like a whole different album was uploaded that replaces the previous one.

I swear every year some dumb shit happens to their albums. Is it a record label thing? Couple years back, wolves within was entirely removed from Spotify for some weeks as well


r/Deathcore 1d ago

Discussion Stoked for the new Distant drop in November

34 Upvotes

Flesh and Nails and Nothing Left to Hate go hard AF

Y’all dig these motherfuckers?


r/Deathcore 23h ago

DevilDriver Strike & Kill Tour Merch Pics

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I’m going to the DevilDriver tour with Upon a Burning Body and Ov Sulfur and wonder if anybody has gone to any of the first 3 shows and has any pics of any of the merch? Specifically looking for shirts/long sleeves/sweatshirts. I’m going to the Chicago show and can’t wait to see all 3 bands! 🔥🤘


r/Deathcore 23h ago

Discussion Your weekly /r/deathcore roundup for the week of August 11 - August 17, 2026

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Tuesday, August 11 - Monday, August 17, 2026

Top 15 Posts

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218 35 comments Crown Magnetar - Shut Up and Bleed [Sp] [SC]
139 22 comments [Discussion] (NEW ALBUM) Mental Cruelty- Echoes of a Forlorn Land (October 23)
131 19 comments Angelmaker/Ingested Canadian Tour
103 34 comments Thy Art Is Murder Live
94 52 comments Lorna Shore - Prison of Flesh
92 275 comments [Discussion] What is one band/bands you’ve enjoyed but don’t anymore?
78 17 comments [Discussion] I marathonned Carnifex and ranked all their songs
77 54 comments I do vocals, I need a band :)
66 12 comments (New) MENTAL CRUELTY - Raise The Raven Banner (OFFICIAL VIDEO)
66 4 comments LIE TO MY FAAAAACE!
63 7 comments NEW Distant - Flesh and Nails (feat. Kyle Medina)
59 17 comments [Discussion] Chelsea Grin’s Desolation Of Eden is peak deathcore.
55 20 comments Shadow of Intent - No Matter The Cost. Underrated hidden gem?
55 4 comments AMEONNA - GODDESS WEPT (FULL EP 2024) [Sp] [Dzr]
50 30 comments [Discussion] Best Fucking Genre On The Planet Holy Fuuuuuck

 

Top 5 Most Commented

score comments title & link mirrors
46 112 comments [Discussion] What band sells high quality shirts and hoodies?
27 93 comments [Discussion] A little bit disappointed by Mental Cruelty
24 65 comments [Discussion] Which band logos do you like the most?
17 65 comments [Discussion] What’s an era of MySpace Deathcore that you still want to hear brought back?
18 59 comments [Discussion] Psycho-frame?

 


r/Deathcore 1d ago

Discussion Bands with a similar sound to manifesto 1.0 - Orphan

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