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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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Santa Cruz's Death Monk dissolve black metal, drone, and doom into long, psychedelic rituals that feel like watching a Pacific coast storm roll in — slow, immense, and spiritually disorienting. A genuine outlier in the California underground.
Fierce Black 'n' Roll from Austin.
Death Noize plays black/thrash metal with crust influences from Transylvania, active since 2013 and fusing three aggressive genres into a raw, unpolished assault. Their noisy approach channels the underground DIY spirit of crust punk through the lens of Transylvanian extreme metal.
Fort Myers' Death of Cain deal in raw, primitive black metal stripped down to its most primitive and hateful essentials. Emerging in 2025, they bring Florida's underground a new voice dripping with frost and spite.
Death of the Human Race plays black metal from Kaliningrad, Russia's Baltic exclave, active since 2021. Their species-extinction name drives apocalyptic compositions from a geographically isolated city surrounded by EU territory.
Death Overlord is an independent black metal band from Valinhos, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2017. The project has maintained a prolific output on Bandcamp, releasing multiple albums including "Fear the Scythe," "Haze of Torment," "Symbol of the Curse," and "Deadlands," working within a raw, underground black metal tradition.
Death Pigeon is a black/thrash/death metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2023. Their irreverent name belies a ferocious triple assault of extreme subgenres.
Death Racer is a black and speed metal band from Linz, Austria, whose lineup includes vocalist Johnny Brise, guitarist Bruce Pirelli, bassist Jörg Müller, and drummer Niki Louder. Albums Qualifying (2020) and From Gravel to Grave (2024) carry a consistent motorsport theme — track titles such as "Nordschleife," "Racers of Death," and "Motormentor" fuse the band's love of racing with high-octane blackened speed metal.
West Monroe's Death Rattler emerged from the Louisiana underground in 2022 with melodic black metal that threads atmospheric grandeur through the bayou state's innate sense of darkness. Their hooks bite hard beneath a wash of blackened tremolo.
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