Tampa, Florida deathcore project. The geopolitical name brings Soviet-era upheaval to the Sunshine State's breakdown-heavy underground.

West Palm Beach death metal and deathcore hybrid with progressive ambitions. Their 2012 full-length The Seven Sounds weaves technical complexity through crushing heaviness, emerging from South Florida's deep well of extreme talent.

A Palm Beach deathcore act formed in 2022, Coagula (FL) play in the tradition of Florida brutality while incorporating the heaviness of modern deathcore. Their 2023 release Rot is a showcase of low-tuned aggression from the Sunshine State underground.

Orlando's Cold Dead Hands deal in deathcore-informed brutality, stacking heavy breakdowns and death metal riffing with a predatory aggression that has made them a force in the Florida metal scene.

Jacksonville, Florida act blending death metal ferocity with the modern churn of deathcore, wringing maximum heaviness from every breakdown and blastbeat. Florida's deep extreme metal roots run through everything they do.

Seminole, Florida death metal and deathcore act blending technical brutality with the kinetic impact of breakdowns. Creatures of Habit brings the Sunshine State's death metal tradition forward into heavier modern territory.

Tampa's Dark Sermon occupies the brutal crossroads where blackened death metal crashes into deathcore, channeling the city's storied death metal legacy through modern extremity since 2013.

Stuart, Florida's Drowned Out blend deathcore's breakdown-driven architecture with the more technical vocabulary of death metal, a pairing they've been refining since 2015. Their sound lands in the brutal middle ground between the two genres — heavy enough for the pit, precise enough to reward close listening.

Miami's Echoes of a Nightmare has been fusing symphonic orchestration with death metal aggression and deathcore breakdowns since 2013 — a combination that plays to the city's theatrical, multilingual metal scene.