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Minneapolis's Death Blossom cultivate a suffocating garden of blackened doom and sludge, dragging the listener through crawling tempos, howling vocals, and frost-bitten dissonance. Since 2017 the trio has been refining a sound that feels equal parts suffocation and desolation.
Death by Starvation is a black metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2013, with lyrical themes centering on death, human decay, and nihilism. The band released a self-titled full-length in October 2013 and later contributed to the split LP "Avaritia Furorem Ignorantia" alongside fellow São Paulo black metal band Vazio, released on vinyl in 2018 through Hell Music and Kill Again Records.
Lakeland, Florida's Death Chant have been practicing their unholy fusion of black and death metal since 2005, funneling Floridian heat into cold, ritualistic extremity. Their music occupies the brutal intersection of death metal riffing and black metal atmosphere.
Death Chapel is a black and death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project merges black metal with death metal.
Death Colony is a black metal project shrouded in deliberate anonymity, operating without a listed location and letting the music speak in shrieks and tremolo alone. Formed in 2021, the project pursues a raw, stripped-down approach to black metal orthodoxy.
Death Comes in Waves started as a melodic death/thrash metal band in Recklinghausen before evolving toward melodic black/death metal, tracing a darkening arc through their catalog. Their oceanic name captures the rhythmic, cyclical nature of their music — aggression that ebbs and surges like tidal forces.
Pomona, California's Death Descends emerged in 2024 fusing the suffocating density of death metal with the frost and malice of black metal, carving space in the Inland Empire's growing extreme metal underground. Their sound leans into dissonance and speed in equal measure.
Death Dies is a black and speed metal band from Padua, Italy, formed in 2023. Their album 'Stregoneria,' released through Time To Kill Records, channels the Italian and Greek occult black metal schools with thick, pulsing guitar walls and straightforward songwriting, including a re-recorded EVOL cover.
Indianapolis's Death Ensemble weld blackened riffing to thrash metal's kinetic momentum, earning their stripes in Indiana's underground since 2012. Their blackened thrash attack trades melody for iron-fisted aggression and cold, nihilistic atmosphere.
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