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Drown in Blood is a death metal/crustcore band from Hamburg, Germany, active since 2010. They fuse death metal's heaviness with crust punk's raw, filthy energy.
Drown My Day is a melodic death metal, deathcore, and groove metal band from Krakow, Poland, formed in 2007. The project blends multiple extreme metal styles from the Lesser Poland capital.
Drowned is a death/thrash metal band from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, long associated with the legendary Cogumelo Records label. Their extensive discography includes "Bonegrinder" (2001), the two-part "Belligerent" (2011–2012), "Recipe of Hate" (2022), and "Brasil Visceral", placing them among the most prolific acts in the city that also produced Sepultura and Sarcófago.
Drowned by Darkness plays a multi-genre blend of melodic power, death, and thrash metal from Schwabisch Hall in Baden-Württemberg, active since 2013. This ambitious cocktail of genres creates compositions that shift between the soaring melodies of power metal and the crushing intensity of death and thrash.
Drowned in Despair is a death metal band from Grand Est, France, formed in 2020. They deliver despairing death metal from eastern France.
Drowned in Torment is a brutal death metal band from Manchester, formed in 2025 at college by drummer-vocalist Harrison Kershaw, guitarist Tommy Heyes, and bassist Will Watts. Their debut single Bathing in Fluoroantimonic Acid captures the raw energy of the trio's earliest compositions, with all production handled in-house.
Stuart, Florida's Drowned Out blend deathcore's breakdown-driven architecture with the more technical vocabulary of death metal, a pairing they've been refining since 2015. Their sound lands in the brutal middle ground between the two genres — heavy enough for the pit, precise enough to reward close listening.
Drowning is a death metal band from Paris, France, active since 2005, whose sound evolved from hardcore/death metal into pure death metal. Their two decades of activity trace an arc toward uncompromising heaviness.
Drowning Hour is a death doom metal project from Shrewsbury, Shropshire, formed in 2025, built around multi-instrumentalist Craig Godbold with vocalists Kieran Scott and Kelly Godbold. Their debut EP Sanger Fra Dypet delivers three tracks of slow, atmospheric, and bleak death doom stretching past twenty minutes.
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