A Wake in Providence is a symphonic deathcore band from Staten Island, New York. Known for blending orchestral arrangements with crushing breakdowns, the band continues to push the boundaries of modern extreme metal.

Jamestown, New York deathcore and melodeath project. Piercing beauty from the southern tier of Western New York.

Long Island deathcore outfit with a massive nine-release catalog since 2013. Their full-length Absolute Hope Absolute Hell and steady stream of singles demonstrate relentless productivity from a band deeply embedded in New York's breakdown-heavy extreme scene.

Queens deathcore project with a massive nine-release output since 2019. Albums like Cool Is Watching You and How Will All This End? suggest existential anxiety beneath the breakdowns, an unusually introspective approach for the genre emerging from New York City's outer boroughs.

Troy, New York deathcore outfit with two releases since 2015. The Global Purge and Dead World Divide deliver apocalyptic breakdowns from the Capital Region, the name leaving zero ambiguity about their intentions.

Schenectady deathcore act Declension arrived in 2022 trafficking in dense, down-tuned death metal attack bolstered by the mechanical precision of modern deathcore. Their name implies collapse — and the music delivers on the promise.

New York's Divergence have been building their case for technical death metal fused with deathcore's structural intensity since 2013, operating under a NYC banner that carries serious underground weight. Their technical death/deathcore hybrid is a dense, demanding proposition — precision musicianship deployed in service of maximum brutality.

New York's Goat Penis occupy the furthest extreme of slam and brutal death, compressing deathcore breakdowns, gutturals, and grind-adjacent blasting into one relentless assault. Formed in 2022, they wear their ugliness as a badge of honor.

Long Island's Nemacyte fuses deathcore's low-end beatdowns with metalcore melodicism and outright death metal brutality, landing somewhere in the aggressive center of all three. The band carries the New York metropolitan area's tradition of heavy music that demands physical response.