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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Extreme Power Metal (2019)
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rosemary (2023)
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Death Rite emerged in 2024 with raw black metal built on primitive aggression and punk instinct — minimal, unpolished, and deliberately savage. A recent arrival with a sound designed to provoke discomfort.
Austin's Death Ritual have been conducting thrash metal ceremonies in the Texas underground since 2016, favoring blunt-force riffing and a no-nonsense approach that honors the genre's blue-collar roots. Loud, fast, and Texas-proud.
Out of Blacksburg, Virginia's college-town underground, Death Shroud conjure raw, atmosphere-drenched black metal that leans into cold dissonance and obsidian riffcraft. Formed in 2011, they remain one of the region's most committed practitioners of the form.
New Orleans' humid rot seeps into every note Death Sigh Ritual plays, channeling the city's occult weight into murky, ceremonial black metal. Active since 2014, the project carries the Crescent City's gothic undercurrent into genuinely hostile sonic territory.
Death Support exist where black metal's cold war on the listener meets crust punk's burning-wreckage aesthetic — caustic, confrontational, and deliberately ugly since 2024. The combination feels less like a genre blend and more like a genuine threat.
Death Temple is a blackened death metal band from Salzburg, founded in 2006 and active ever since. Their 2015 full-length Dominion of the Night, with standout tracks "In the Claws of the Harpii" and the title track, sits in the tradition of underground war metal, drawing comparisons to Denouncement Pyre and Embrace of Thorns.
Death Throne is a black/death metal band from Lyon, France, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of history, they are veterans of the Lyon extreme metal scene.
Death Tower plays ambient/black metal from Belgrade, active since 2017 and constructing towering atmospheric compositions that fuse black metal's tremolo darkness with ambient's immersive expansiveness. Their architectural name suits music built vertically — layer upon layer of sound.
Death Vomit is a raw black metal band from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a catalog of songs built around blasphemous and occult themes including titles like Ancient Spell of Evil and In War for Deliverance. The band has reached audiences well beyond the Balkans, with documented live appearances in Southeast Asia including shows in Indonesia and Singapore.
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