CLEANSING OF THE TEMPLE

BAND NAME: Cleansing Of The Temple

GENRE: Deathcore / Hardcore

STATUS: Active

LOCATION: Clemson, South Carolina

Lineup:

Gavin James - Vocals

Dustin Duvall - Guitars

Matthew Clark - Guitars

Rasheen Johnson - Drums

Links:

Bandcamp

Facebook

Instagram

Discography:

Abbeville (single)

June 17, 2020, Independent (Digital)

June 28, 2021, AvidPlay (Digital)

1. Abbeville 4:16

Die A King (single)

February 22, 2021, AvidPlay (Digital)

June 17, 2022, Independent (Digital)

1. Die A King 4:26

Gates Of Hell (single)

June 28, 2021, AvidPlay (Digital)

June 17, 2022, Independent (Digital)

1. Gates Of Hell 4:57

Dismember The Infant (single, July 27, 2021, Independent) (Digital)

1. Dismember The Infant 6:04

Slam 4 The Lamb (EP)

July 24, 2022, AvidPlay (Digital)

July 28, 2022, Independent (Digital)

May 4, 2023, Rottweiler Records (Digital)

1. Slam 4 The Lamb 6:57

Spill their guts

For a higher power

Peel their skin

Salt their wounds

Pierce their heart

Eternal death looms

Slam 4 the Lamb

Until I die

Slam 4 the Lamb

Hear death cry

Slam 4 the Lamb

Angels will sing

Slam 4 the Lamb

The devil will hang

Slam 4 the Lamb

Crucifixion, devastation

Resurrection, levitation

Now the King of every nation

There is no limitation

Done

Crucifixion, devastation

Resurrection, levitation

Now the King of every nation

There is no limitation

Done

Crucifixion, devastation

Resurrection, levitation

Now the King of every nation

There is no limitation

Done

Crucifixion, devastation

Resurrection, levitation

Now the King of every nation

There is no limitation

Done

Slam 4 the Lamb

Slam 4 the Lamb

Slam 4 the Lamb

2. Die A King 3:46

3. In Loving Memory 4:53

In The Garden (single, February 17, 2023, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. In The Garden 3:45

I, Afflicted (single, May 24, 2024, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. I, Afflicted 2:24

Meaningless words from the mouth of a loveless man

How can you hate a God you don't believe in?

My heart breaks for all that you will ever know

A life in darkness where you think that you walk alone

The devil holds your hand every step that you take

Thou who could have loved you most has been shunned away

Caught in the false reflection of religious hypocrisy

Pierced by the envy of a world grown cold

It's all the same, just a "damned" cliche

Where is my God now?

Where is He not?

Fingers pointed at the sky, not at man, not at mirrors

Deprived of hope

Drowning in tears

The world forever gnaws on the pierced hand that feeds

To them I am a bastard, but the angels envy me

Trinity unphased by the foulness of your tongue

Forever praise the name of the Father and the Son

The indentions of your knees are already made

Stained Glass Blues (single, June 21, 2024, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. Stained Glass Blues 3:40

Gods amongst men fall

Vain repetitions sown with money and pride

How much joy could your stained glass buy for the ones who cry?

You belong in a pew so you can spew lies to yourself from where you sit

Heretics gifted with the leading role

Feasting on innocence of young and old

This is for every woman and child raped by a "man of God" and every lost soul who was made to feel inadequate on Wednesday night

You are loved

You are to die for

The righteous will be damned

You swear by the truth and further prove you are dirty

Their faces show every bit of disgust in your motive

Your prayers of greed to only praise yourself of the dross that you really are

I said damned

Judge this

You sink your teeth into anybody

I can read the lies straight from your filthy face

All you two-faced bastards, judging people for things they can't control

You shake my hand on Sunday and you stab me in the back on Monday

God doesn't love you more than anyone else so you can go to hell

The Devil Knows My Name (album, July 12, 2024, Rottweiler Records) (CD, Digital)

1. Farther Along The Valley 1:10

2. God Of Hate 3:08

How much do you hate that the God that you hate

Was breathing life and giving breath when he formed your face?

Speaking just for you when your lips were laced

You had a place to hang but he took your place

How much do you hate that the God that you hate

Was breathing life and giving breath when he formed your face?

Speaking just for you when your lips were laced

You had a place to hang but he took your place

Broken inside

Wasting your time

Let go

Destroy the spirit

Of the god of hate

Mutilate the body

Desecrate the grave

Peel deceptions grasp

Snap the fingers one by one

3. The Devil Knows My Name 4:03

The devil knows my name

For it's written in the book of life

Death to the fallen angel

Let it be known, my allegiance lies with heaven

Let it echo, for every six I am the seven

Long live the King of Kings

The mark of the beast has been scratched from the surface of anything meaningful

There is a kingdom built on blood, nothing is more beautiful

I, I, I, I, I know the devil

Bring me the head of baphomet

When the dead walk, the wicked lie still

Let the devil talk, Christ acted upon the hill

4. Piss 'N' Spit 2:44

Reach out and touch the hand that has been crucified

This new creature's existence has been denied

This heart of flesh has callused over

Harder than a heart of stone

The will of man my darkest hour

The hands of God my only dawn

Don't you even try to hate when you don't even know the taste

Of piss and spit and bloody lips

I'm the piece that doesn't fit

For every six I am the seven

No one deserves to go to heaven

Righteousness it has no place

The world's good deeds are gone to waste

WHAT THE HELL DO YOU WANT FROM ME?

The world will never know my misery

The world will never know my misery

5. Sardis 2:40

Judging others for booze and blow

Religion and money is all you know

Wear your suit and tie until you die

Your life and image was one big lie

Casting your stones, that are aimed to kill

The broken stay broken, they never heal

The god you serve has become so clear

If you wanna see him, take a look in the mirror

Dead

Dead

Dead

Church

Shake and shiver, from head to toe

You will reap what you sow

Crawl on your knees, pretend to pray

Charades won't save you on judgement day

It's a dead giveaway

I follow the buzzards that circle your steeple

The master of confusion

Has his grasp on you and your people

Dead

Dead

Dead

Church

You won't feel so holy

When the worms rape you inside and out

You self-righteous prick

You are all I disgust

Your crimson ways have stained the dress of the bride

May the blood of lost souls taint your hands

I will grin on my deathbed

Knowing I could never

Be good enough for you

6. Abwoon D'Bashmaya / A Time For War 5:36

When we're falling hear our calling

When we're falling hear our calling

Abwoon d'bashmaya

Nethqadash smakh

Teytey malkuthakh

Neywey tzevyanach aykanna d'bwashmaya aph b'arha

7. I, Afflicted 2:24

Meaningless words from the mouth of a loveless man

How can you hate a God you don't believe in?

My heart breaks for all that you will ever know

A life in darkness where you think that you walk alone

The devil holds your hand every step that you take

Thou who could have loved you most has been shunned away

Caught in the false reflection of religious hypocrisy

Pierced by the envy of a world grown cold

It's all the same, just a "damned" cliche

Where is my God now?

Where is He not?

Fingers pointed at the sky, not at man, not at mirrors

Deprived of hope

Drowning in tears

The world forever gnaws on the pierced hand that feeds

To them I am a bastard, but the angels envy me

Trinity unphased by the foulness of your tongue

Forever praise the name of the Father and the Son

The indentions of your knees are already made

8. Stained Glass Blues 3:40

Gods amongst men fall

Vain repetitions sown with money and pride

How much joy could your stained glass buy for the ones who cry?

You belong in a pew so you can spew lies to yourself from where you sit

Heretics gifted with the leading role

Feasting on innocence of young and old

This is for every woman and child raped by a "man of God" and every lost soul who was made to feel inadequate on Wednesday night

You are loved

You are to die for

The righteous will be damned

You swear by the truth and further prove you are dirty

Their faces show every bit of disgust in your motive

Your prayers of greed to only praise yourself of the dross that you really are

I said damned

Judge this

You sink your teeth into anybody

I can read the lies straight from your filthy face

All you two-faced bastards, judging people for things they can't control

You shake my hand on Sunday and you stab me in the back on Monday

God doesn't love you more than anyone else so you can go to hell

9. Where Does Darkness Dwell When We Open Our Eyes 6:42

Calling names from the depths of my slumber where peace resides

Lest we forget your absence

Reliant upon the lack of light

Your presence has yet to leave

Growing far too comfortable

Pestilence, yet to leave

Trailing along the coattail of life

Pick it clean, take all but strife

Taunting and mockery at every corner

Coldness lives and it won't get warmer

Why must you find your home

In hearts designed for greater good?

I'd kill you with my own bare hands if I could

Ripping and tearing your insides out until there's nothing to see, no life

We lock eyes down the barrels of guns

You stare back from the bottomless bottom

I read your name between the lines

You are lust in the unknown eyes

Forever from grace, tears on God's face

Bittersweet taste

Vengeance is mine, loathe left behind

Choke on the vine

Grinning prick, you are no friend of mine

Hell is where you belong, your last breath is my dying song

What have I to fear?

You'll be forsaken by God

Decay for eternity

The grave, the great escape

You will reside alone in a six foot box

I spit on your God-forsaken grave

Watch me as I push the knife in your chest

Just to watch you fall

Bludgeoned to death, bleed out on the floor

Dead

Broken Man (single, August 8, 2025, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. Broken Man 4:07

I'm decaying on the inside

I'm decaying on the inside

I'm decaying on the inside

I'm decaying on the inside

I know a broken man and all his thoughts for I am one

I'm choking on the built up words I keep away from everyone

Why would I hold onto hope when it always feels like hope is gone?

Help me

I've bent over backwards so many times

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff

Comfort me

Comfort me

You're just another burden that bleeds

You're just another burden that bleeds

I've bent over backwards so many times

It feels like my spine has snapped in half

Sever the ligatures tethered to fear

My mind is mine to keep

Mary, Did You Know? (single, December 5, 2025, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. Mary, Did You Know? 4:40

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Would one day walk on water?

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Would save our sons and daughters?

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Has come to make you new?

This child that you delivered, will soon deliver you

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Will give sight to a blind man?

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Will calm the storm with his hand?

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Has walked where angels trod?

When you kiss your little baby

You kiss the face of God

Mary, did you know?

The blind will see, the deaf will hear

The dead will live again

The lame will leap, the dumb will speak

The praises of the Lamb

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Is Lord of all creation?

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Would one day rule the nations?

Mary, did you know that your baby boy

Is heaven's perfect Lamb?

That sleeping child you're holding is the great I Am

Mary, did you know?

(Mary, did you know?)

Mary, did you know?

(Mary, did you know?)

Mary, did you know?

Oh

A BODY DIVIDED

BAND NAME: A Body Divided

GENRE: Technical Death Metal / Deathcore

STATUS: Unknown

LOCATION: Knoxville, Tennessee

Links:

Facebook

Bandcamp

Discography:

The Rescuer (EP, January 29, 2012, Independent) (Digital)

1. Beginnings 3:14

2. I Am Alive 4:11

3. JSB 4:18

4. A Familiar Vice 3:33

5. Resurrection 5:20

[D]elusion (album, February 23, 2013, Independent) (Digital)

1. The Overcomer 4:23

2. Dis/connect 4:27

3. D.A.B. 3:54

4. Eradication Of A Falsehood 4:41

5. Reflections 2:50

6. Residuum 3:56

7. [d]Elusion 3:32

8. Fallible Creator 4:25

9. Manifestation 4:21

A BETTER TOMORROW

BAND NAME: A Better Tomorrow

GENRE: Deathcore / Melodic Metalcore

STATUS: Unknown

LOCATION: Maryville, Tennessee

Links:

Bandcamp

Discography:

A Better Tomorrow (EP, October 2, 2012, Independent) (Digital)

1. Beginnings 1:11

This is only the beginning.

2. Descent 3:20

A better tomorrow.

We yearn for a better tomorrow.

Don't you see with every passing day, that we're one day closer to the end.

I for one will rejoice in that waking moment, when my Savior descends.

Heaven will descend and it will mark the end of everything we know.

This will be the day that the world recognizes my Savior, and he will reign supreme.

My God will reign supreme, and I will bask in his glory.

Don't you see with every passing day, that we're one day closer to the end.

I for one will rejoice in that waking moment, when my Savior descends.

Heaven will descend and it will mark the end of everything we know.

I will have my better tomorrow.

3. Anthem 3:15

This is the anthem of a sinner, sin corrupts the flesh, our flesh corrupts the world.

But all is not lost for their salvation through my Savior Jesus Christ.

All you need to do is repent of your sins and stay diligent in your walk with God.

Just remember these few words.

I won't give in, into this sickness, I won't give in, into sin.

I won't give in, into this sickness, I won't give in, into sin.

I won't give into this, you won't give into this, we won't give into this, this is the flesh.

I won't give into this sickness, I won't give into this sin, I won't give into this sickness, this is the flesh, this is our sin.

I won't give into my flesh.

This is the sickness that plagues the world, our flesh is the sickness, our flesh is sin, this is the sickness that plagues the world, our flesh is sickness because of sin.

But know you're not alone, there are many others like you.

We all have our struggles, and we lean on one another for support.

There is a God, one we should fear, but we are the ones that He holds dear, He knows our struggles, He knows our pain, but He loves us anyway.

This is the sickness that plagues the world, our flesh is the sickness, our flesh is sin.

But we have the spirit of God, and with Him we can change the world.

4. Counter 4:32

Love, and be like Christ, it's the only way to save our soul.

Love.

I know in this world it can be quite hard to express Christ's love and get very far, but we can't give up, it's our duty to show his love.

In this place so full of hate, it's so hard to communicate, mention you're a Christian and you get shut down, ignorance is so profound.

The devil is full of hatred and our God overflowing with love.

Our God has mercy, power, and glory, but the devil has nothing.

I will live his mercy, I will live his love.

We must show Christ's love.

Hate will not rule this world, hate is a tool that's used by the devil, manipulates your soul and drags you to hell.

I will not be manipulated by your hatred.

This world is full of hate but I will not hate it back.

We must love one another to survive.

This world is full of hate but I will not hate it back.

5. Resolution 3:31

There is a God, I know it in my heart.

There is a Savior, I know it in my heart.

No matter what you say, I will not falter in my beliefs.

There is a God, a God I tell you.

Powerful, wonderful, magnificent, gave me my salvation.

I don't care what you say, it doesn't matter to me.

I am unshakable.

Why don't you believe?

This world we live in should be evidence enough.

I will not falter in my beliefs.

I will die a believer.

There is a God, a God I tell you.

Powerful, wonderful, magnificent, gave me my salvation.

I will die a believer.

6. Salvation 2:39

You are the King of Kings, You sent Your Son, to die for me.

He shed His blood on that cross, for me, to free me from my sin.

EXALTATION

BAND NAME: Exaltation

GENRE: Brutal Death Metal

STATUS: Active

LOCATION: Rock Spring, Georgia

Lineup:

Tyler Johnson - Everything

Links:

Facebook

Bandcamp

Discography:

Relentless Mangling Of An Occult Medium At The Hands Of A Vengeful Paranormal Entity (single, April 18, 2022, Independent) (Digital)

1. Relentless Mangling Of An Occult Medium At The Hands Of A Vengeful Paranormal Entity 3:50

Annihilation Of The Devil's Iconography (single, May 4, 2022, Independent) (Digital)

1. Annihilation Of The Devil's Iconography 5:04

Pit Riffs Against Evil (split, August 27, 2022, Independent) (Digital)

9. Exaltation - Ripping Through The Demon Horde 5:01

Violence plagued my mind

From ages of self abuse

And the actions of others

Have left me fighting hate

Angry demons in the shadows

Hide behind flesh and blood

I see the true adversary

Destined to a grim fate

How rotten the rebellious fallen angels are

When my mind goes dark again

May I not draw the gun

On the flesh and blood

That the evil shield themselves with

So draw your guns and take up sword

Against the one true enemy

Prince of the world insults the Lord

He will never take us all

Destined to fail

Destined to die

Pitted into suffering

The fallen will never rise

They seethe with rage as their schemes all fail

Knowing my heart is with the Lord

As they suffer I will prosper

Let the demons burn forever

As they suffer I will prosper

Let me walk with the Lord forever

10. Exaltation - Relentless Mangling Of An Occult Medium At The Hands Of A Vengeful Paranormal Entity 3:50

11. Exaltation - Abandoning Death 5:01

Preserving my own misery

A wretched worship of pessimism

A youth culture cult of negativity

Passed off as passionate beliefs

Frantic quests of lust and greed

To achieve unattainable satisfaction

I no longer want to be like you

I want nothing to do with this anymore

Hate, misery, lust

Idolization of death

Cast it away

Rip away this tumor of wretchedness

I have chosen to abandon this misery

And now you all hate me

I have chosen to walk into the vastness of bliss

Now you all hate me

Now you label me

A conformist to society

While you quell the voices of masses

With your hate-filled rhetoric

Watching from outside the pasture

As your herd is led to the butcher

Yet you mock me and point your fingers

Claiming I'd led astray

I have passed the fence

For the gate is wide open

Your freedom awaits here

Yet you don't want to be an outcast

So bleat, bleat, bleat

Bleat little sheep

On your way to the bolt gun

Bleat, bleat, bleat

Bleat little sheep

On your way to the bolt gun

Both eyes turned into the shadows

Locked on the riches in the dark

The flock heads to the butcher

Waiting at the riches in the dark

Bleat, bleat, bleat

Bleat little sheep

As he primes up the bolt gun

Bleat, bleat, bleat

Bleat little sheep

As he primes up the bolt gun

You chose the wide path

I wish you would follow me

I shall walk without fear through the darkness

For I know that the light is with me

Billions of lost souls abusing creation

Attached to the temporary

Destined to one day lose it all

The doomed, the angry, the dying

Cursing the sacred

One by one

The bodies continue to drop

Never to return

Never to feel joy again

Rotting and empty

All light purged from them forever

12. Exaltation - Horrendous Torture (Kraanium cover) 0:43

TUNDRA

BAND NAME: Tundra

GENRE: Deathcore / Hardcore

STATUS: Active

LOCATION: Kansas City, Kansas

Links:

Bandcamp

Bandcamp (Label)

Discography:

Wastelands (album, April 10, 2020, Limited Edition, Independent) (CD, Digital)

1. Wastelands 0:37

2. World Meant To Burn 3:58

3. Save Me 3:27

4. Dissonance 3:56

5. Doomed 3:05

6. Interlude 1:58

7. Run. Fall. Burn. 4:34

8. Corruption 3:36

9. Digging Up Graves 4:51

10. The Serpents Lair 3:25

11. Time's Up 3:47

12. Seasons Change 4:18

13. Goodbye 4:43

Eternal (EP, October 23, 2020, Limited Edition, Independent) (CD, Digital)

1. Alone 2:34

2. Welcome To Hell 4:02

3. The Witch 3:41

4. Hostage 3:06

5. Undead 2:32

Seasons Change (Acoustic Version) (single, January 1, 2022, Independent) (Digital)

1. Seasons Change (Acoustic Version) 3:39

The Pit (single, May 11, 2022, Independent) (Digital)

1. The Pit 4:16

Alone (Stripped Version) (single, January 8, 2023, Independent) (Digital)

1. Alone (Stripped Version) 2:48

Undead (single, October 3, 2024, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. Undead 2:27

Welcome To Hell (single, January 10, 2025, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. Welcome To Hell 4:04

Revelation (single, March 7, 2025, Rottweiler Records) (Digital)

1. Revelation 3:58

Eternal (album, April 4, 2025, Rottweiler Records) (CD, Digital)

1. Alone 2:32

2. Welcome To Hell 4:04

3. The Pit 4:08

4. The Witch 3:38

5. Smoke And Mirrors 3:54

6. Hostage 2:58

7. 911 1:45

8. Undead 2:27

9. Insane 3:04

10. Revelation 3:58

11. You Are 4:01

APOLLYON

BAND NAME: Apollyon

GENRE: Brutal Deathcore / Death Metal

STATUS: Active

LOCATION: Texas

Links:

Bandcamp

Discography:

What Would You Die For? (album, December 31, 2016, Independent) (Digital)

1. Intro 0:43

2. Martyr 2:41

3. Deny 3:51

4. Seraphim 3:28

5. Let Me In 1:54

6. Henchmen 3:26

7. Falsehood 4:01

8. Self Image 2:46

9. Repentance 3:08

10. End 2:46

Possession (single, March 23, 2018, Independent) (Digital)

1. Possession 6:02

CROSSTHRONE

BAND NAME: Crossthrone

GENRE: Death Metal / Unblack Metal

STATUS: Split-up

Discography:

The Place Of A Skull (album, August 30, 2021, Annihilated Pentagram Productions) (CD-R, Digital)

1. The Place Of A Skull 3:36

2. No Power At All Against Him 3:35

3. Given Thee From Above 3:50

4. Thee Hath The Greater Sin 4:00

5. If Thou Let This Man Go 3:58

6. Wearing The Crown Of Thorns 3:59

7. He Bearing His Cross 3:56

8. Destroy And Not Spare The Place 5:02

9. Not Remain Upon The Cross 3:17

10. Take Away The Body 2:57