If deathcore had a darkroom, CARNIFEX would turn off the lights. And that’s exactly what’s in store for you in August 2027, because they’re finally coming to play at Reload.

CARNIFEX sound like night. Like frost. Like choir halls and soot. They realized early on that deathcore becomes even more brutal when you infuse it with black metal’s coldness and a truly dark atmosphere—it is precisely this “blackened deathcore” signature sound that is their trademark.

What sets them apart is the tension between raw power and atmosphere. There are the breakdowns and the intensity you’d expect—but layered over that is this symphonic, choral, almost horror-like element that makes the space feel larger and casts a darker shadow over everything.

But CARNIFEX isn’t a band that hides behind genre debates. Scott Lewis has said it clearly himself: They are deathcore—and they stand by it. Maybe that’s exactly why they’ve been delivering consistently for years: because no one here is trying to come across as “above it all.”

And when the Reload is sizzling again in August amid the usual summer heat, CARNIFEX will provide just the right way to cool off: a set where the atmosphere shifts, the lights dim—and you’ll feel how quickly things suddenly get intense up front.