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Masters of Morbidity (2022)
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No Grave But The Sea (Deluxe Edition) (2017)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Death in Effigy is a death/black metal band from Vitoria-Gasteiz, Basque Country, Spain, formed in 2020. They forge extreme metal from the Basque capital.
Death Insanity is a death/black metal band from North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. They channel the extremity of both death and black metal into a savage sonic assault.
Irvington, New York's Death Island traveled from punk roots to a mature blackened death metal sound over the course of their career, growing increasingly complex and atmospheric along the way. Formed in 2022, the Hudson Valley act brings melodic sensibility to extreme metal's harshest textures.
Death Karma is a black and death metal band originally from Slovakia, later based in Prague, formed in 2013. The project delivers dark extreme metal with Czech and Slovak underground roots.
Charlotte, North Carolina's Death Legion have been marching through the Southeast's black/death metal underground since 2019, combining both genres' most brutal tendencies into a relentless frontal assault. Their sound doesn't split the difference so much as weaponize both simultaneously.
Death like Mass is a black metal band from Kielce, Poland, formed in 2015. The project channels dark and atmospheric black metal from the Swietokrzyskie region.
Death Magic Ritual is a Finnish black metal act formed in 2024, conjuring occult ceremonies through tremolo-driven compositions and blast-beat fury. Their ritualistic name places them in the lineage of Finnish occult black metal that has thrived since the early 1990s.
Raw and unrelenting, Seattle's Death Mantra channel depressive black metal into bleak, suffocating rituals that feel built for the Pacific Northwest's grey skies. Their sound is a cold fog that refuses to lift.
Death Mind plays black/thrash metal from Turku, active since 2020 and fusing the mental intensity of black metal with thrash's physical aggression. Their Finnish coastal setting provides a backdrop of maritime cold for music that attacks from both the cerebral and visceral directions.
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