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State Of Unrest (2023)
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Drift of Genes is a brutal death metal band from Debaltseve, Ukraine, formed in 2012. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the Donbas region.
Drill Star Autopsy is a death/groove metal band from Eisleben, Germany, formed in 2018. They combine death metal's brutality with groove metal's rhythmic drive.
Drillworm started as a death/groove metal act in Kazan before shifting toward thrash metal and hardcore. Active since 2015, their parasitic name and genre evolution speak to a restless creativity that refuses to settle in one sonic body.
Dripback is a death metal, grindcore, and hardcore band from London, active since 2011 and self-described as delivering "hardcore / death / grind fury." Their 2020 album Blessed with Less Than Nothing was produced and mastered by Russ Russell with executive production by Nicholas H. Barker, pressed on vinyl through 4Family Records in a first run of 300 copies.
Based out of Clifton and active since 2021, Dripping operate at the extreme outer edge of slam and brutal death metal, injecting experimental sensibilities into an already punishing framework. The result is something deliberately disorienting — dense slabs of down-tuned brutality interrupted by moments of calculated sonic wrongness that keep listeners off balance.
Dripping Horror is a death and thrash metal band from Orebro, Sweden, formed in 2019. The project delivers aggressive death/thrash.
North Carolina's Droid Killer have been fusing death and doom metal since 2014, creating music that moves with the grinding inevitability of heavy machinery. The death/doom combination they work in lends itself to a particular kind of dread — too slow to thrash, too savage to drift, and fully committed to both extremes at once.
Out of Birmingham, Alabama — a city with its own long history of heavy music — Drood have been crafting death/doom metal since 2017 that leans into the slower, more mournful qualities of the form. Their sound carries the oppressive atmosphere that Birmingham's industrial heritage seems to lend to music, with death metal's brutality filtered through doom's bottomless patience.
Louisiana's Dropkik hail from the small town of Luling and have been delivering blunt-force death metal since 2015. There's nothing decorative about their approach — it's direct, violent, and rooted in a blue-collar understanding of what death metal is supposed to accomplish.
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