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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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Jacksonville's Dead Flesh arrived in 2022 carrying on Florida's storied tradition of rotting, murky death metal, built on a foundation of putrid riffs and cavernous production. The Sunshine State's death metal lineage runs deep through every track.
Chicago's Dead for Days have been unleashing brutal death metal on the city since 2004, bringing the Midwest's underground extremity to bear with relentless, gore-soaked efficiency. Two decades in, the brutality hasn't diminished.
Dead Future is a death metal band from Sopot, Bulgaria, delivering concise bursts of aggression rooted in old-school extremity. Formed in 2014, the group channels raw, uncompromising brutality through tight, punishing compositions.
Dead Hand Caress is a death metal/grindcore band from Mieres, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver ferocious extremity from the mining heartland of Asturias.
Austin's Dead Haven have been grinding out death/thrash metal since 2013, fusing the precision of thrash with death metal's visceral extremity in a city better known for its live music than its extreme underground. They're the gritty counterpoint to the capital's polished scene.
Dead Head is a death and thrash metal band from Kampen and Zwolle, Netherlands, formed in 2017. The project channels aggressive death/thrash metal from the Overijssel province.
Dead Head Down is a death/thrash metal band from Münster, Germany, active since 2012. They fuse the heaviness of death metal with thrash's relentless speed and precision.
Dead Horizon is a death metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2024. They bring fresh brutality to the German death metal scene with uncompromising heaviness.
Houston thrash with a sludgy, punky edge. Cult classics of the late-80s Texas scene.
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