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Dying Awkward Angel plays melodic death metal from Turin, pairing the genre's aggressive vocal and rhythmic foundation with emotional, soaring guitar melodies. Their evocative name — an angel dying gracelessly — hints at the tension between beauty and violence that defines their sound.
Dying Creed is an atmospheric/melodic death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They deliver emotive, atmospheric death metal from the Finnish capital.
Dying East is a death/thrash metal band from Zupanja, Croatia, formed in 2022. The band deliver aggressive death-thrash metal from the eastern Croatian underground.
Dying Empire is a melodic death metal band from Dresden, Germany, active since 2014. They craft emotive melodic death metal from Saxony's underground.
Dying Faith is a black and death metal band from Cervignano del Friuli, in the Udine province of Italy, formed in 2015. The project merges black metal's atmospheric darkness with death metal's crushing intensity.
Dying Grotesque is a death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2019. The project delivers aggressive death metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Dying Hope is a death/thrash metal band from Pontivy, France, formed in 2016. They deliver hopeless aggression from the heart of Brittany.
Lakewood, California's Dying Messiah has been merging black and death metal since 2007, forging a sound that borrows the atmospheric cold of the former and the sonic brutality of the latter into a consistently extreme sonic statement.
Dying Realm is a death metal band from Birmingham, formed in 2026, featuring vocalist David Blaney, guitarists Jake Murray and Sam Thompson, bassist Tom Stokes, and drummer Mitch Dornan. Their debut EP Siege the Walls was released through Dry Cough Records and Cavernous Records, mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege, exploring dark medieval and fantasy warfare themes.
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