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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Darkrite plays melodic death metal from Sovetsky in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug of western Siberia, active since 2013. Their music brings Gothenburg-influenced melody to one of the most remote, oil-rich regions on earth.
Born in the Virginia tidewater in 2019, Darkshrine forge a corrosive blend of black and death metal where tremolo-picked menace collides with brutal low-end punishment. Their music carries the grim, swampy weight of the mid-Atlantic underground.
Out of Independence, Missouri, Darkside have been threading progressive ambition through traditional heavy metal since 2013, building songs that trade in shifting time signatures and melodic grandeur without losing the punch of the genre's roots.
Darksied is a death metal band from the West Midlands, England, active since 2013. They play crushing death metal from the English heartland.
Darkstone is a death metal band from Sweden, formed in 2019. The project delivers aggressive Swedish death metal.
Orange County's Darksun arrived in 2023 swinging hard at the intersection of death and thrash, channeling California's long legacy of punishing speed metal into a sound that's all aggression and forward momentum.
Darktempered is a death/black metal and grindcore band from Miskolc, Hungary, active since 2005. With two decades of activity, the band are veterans of the Hungarian extreme metal underground.
Darkvoid is a melodic death metal and deathcore act from the Sicilian resort town of Taormina, founded in 2024 and blending crushing breakdowns with melodic guitar leads. Their sound sits at the modern intersection of extreme metal's heaviest and most accessible impulses.
Darkwind is a black-death metal band from the Kozlovice/Frydek-Mistek area of the Czech Republic, formed in 2018 and channeling the raw intensity of Eastern European extreme metal. Their sound fuses black metal's icy aggression with death metal's crushing depth.
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