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Drawback is a death/thrash metal band from Mor, Hungary, formed in 2020. The band combine the brutality of death metal with thrash metal speed and precision.
Drawn and Quartered have been one of Ohio's most steadfast purveyors of old-school death metal since their formation in Sidney in 1999, building a legacy on punishing riffs and an uncompromising devotion to the genre's most sepulchral traditions. Their sound reaches back to the early-nineties death metal underground — cavernous, malevolent, and utterly without mercy. Decades into their existence they remain a band that refuses to modernize, treating death metal as a living covenant rather than a nostalgic exercise.
Drawn from Ichor is a sludge, industrial, and death metal band from Sheffield, formed in 2016. Their prolific output includes Forgotten Architecture, Dimensions of Empire, Void Vessel, Manifesting Chaos, and Up into the Wolf's Jaw, as well as a split demo with Rituals in Oscillation.
Out of Pittsburgh since 2005, Drazen forge their sound at the collision point of thrash and death metal, delivering the kind of aggressive, riff-forward music that made both genres dangerous in the first place. They carry the blue-collar intensity of their city into every track — straightforward in attack, unrelenting in execution. Two decades into their run they remain a reliable fixture of the Pittsburgh underground and a testament to the staying power of metal that doesn't overcomplicate its violence.
Las Vegas outfit Dreadbore have been fusing death metal and hardcore into something mean and unadorned since 2017, channeling the scorched-earth energy of both scenes into a hybrid that owes nothing to either genre's more polished tendencies. Their music has the blunt impact of hardcore and the technical savagery of death metal without diluting either, a combination that suits a city built on extremity. They are exactly as relentless as their name suggests.
Dreadeth emerged from Pittsburgh in 2014 wielding the blackened death metal style with a rawness that keeps one foot in each parent genre, never smoothing over the rough edges where the two traditions grind against each other. Their sound is dense with malice — tremolo-picked guitars over blasting drums and vocals that lean into the suffocating end of the blackened spectrum. Pittsburgh has long supported a serious extreme metal underground, and Dreadeth are among its more uncompromising residents.
Houston's Dreadful have inhabited the bleak corridors of depressive black metal since 2012, crafting music that channels the genre's hallmark anguish and elongated misery with a sincerity that distinguishes them from mere aesthetic exercise. Their Bandcamp presence connects them to a small but devoted audience that seeks out black metal as a form of emotional reckoning rather than spectacle. In a Texas scene dominated by death metal and sludge, they carve out a distinctly isolated and introspective space.
Dreadful Deathreign is a death metal band from João Monlevade, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed around 2019–2021 by Anderlon A. (bass and vocals) alongside guitarists Fabrício S. and Valber N., with drummer Amazarack completing the lineup in 2020. Rooted firmly in 1990s old-school death metal, the band released their debut EP "The Bloody Terror" in July 2022, recorded at Paralelo Studio in João Monlevade.
Dreadful Fate is a death and thrash metal band from Avesta, Sweden, formed in 2017. The project delivers devastating death/thrash from the Dalarna region.
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