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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Oklahoma City's Datura push technical death metal into stranger territory with an avant-garde streak that refuses to color inside genre lines, bringing genuine compositional weirdness to a city with a scrappy extreme metal tradition.
Austin's Datura have been cultivating a straight-ahead death metal assault since 2019, rooted in the Lone Star City's dense extreme metal underground where heaviness is treated as both tradition and obligation.
New York melodic death metal act Daughter Chaos balance harmonic elegance against a gnashing rhythmic core, crafting songs since 2020 that treat dissonance and melody as equal partners in the same violent conversation.
Dauntless is a death/thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2007. They deliver fearless death/thrash metal with nearly two decades of experience.
Dauthuz is a death metal band from Zaanstad, Netherlands, formed in 2005. The project has delivered two decades of aggressive death metal from the Zaan region north of Amsterdam.
Denver's David Scafidi approaches experimental death/thrash with a restless disregard for convention, pushing the genre's templates toward stranger and more unpredictable territory from Colorado's thriving underground metal scene since 2023.
Hailing from Roy, Utah, Davidian tear through the thrash and speed metal playbook with relentless aggression and tightly wound riffs. Formed in 2017, they keep the raw, unpolished energy of classic speed metal alive in an era that rarely demands it.
Davinchi plays metalcore and deathcore from Saint Petersburg, active since 2021 and adding Renaissance-genius naming to crushing breakdowns and guttural vocals. Their deliberately misspelled tribute to da Vinci hints at ambition beyond the genre's typical boundaries.
Technical death metal from Montclair, New Jersey, Davola have been constructing intricate walls of precision brutality since 2009. Their music rewards close listening, with labyrinthine song structures built on a foundation of uncompromising violence.
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