Though an early hybrid of death metal and crossover thrash was practiced by Michigan's Repulsion New York death metal veterans Suffocation and Maryland's Dying Fetus were among the first death metal groups to make the breakdown a staple in their music.Additionally, the straight edge hardcore group Earth Crisis borrowed a great deal from death metal, as did Converge and Hatebreed.Before the rise of deathcore, bands such as Abscess and Unseen Terror used the term to describe what were considered to be hardcore punk and death metal hybrids. Germany's Blood also released a 1986 demo entitled Deathcore, while another German group, formed in 1987 and related to Blood, used "Deathcore" as a band name.
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