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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Dead Man Down is a melodic death metal band from Izmir, Turkey, formed in 2014. The project delivers emotionally charged melodic death metal from the Aegean coast.
Dead Man Square is a melodic death/groove metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy melodic grooves from the Alsatian capital.
Dead Man's Path is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Dalarna, Sweden, formed in 2020. The project blends melodic death metal with metalcore intensity.
Columbia, Missouri's Dead Medusa have been turning death/thrash into something petrifying since 2017, operating out of the Midwest's college-town underground with a sound that bites hard from every angle. The serpentine riffs live up to the mythology.
Dead Memories is a death metal band from Visbek, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver intense death metal that channels darkness and aggression in equal measure.
Dead Men Tell No Tales is a death and groove metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2014. The project fuses death metal heaviness with groove metal's rhythmic punch in an aggressive Roman extreme metal combination.
Dead Men Walking is a Belgian death metal and metalcore band whose setlist documentation shows activity across the Belgian underground scene. The band occupies a crossover space between old-school death metal brutality and the structural sensibilities of metalcore.
Orlando's Dead Nervous System have been carving out melodic death metal with surgical precision since 1994, blending crushing riff work with moments of haunting melody. Few Florida acts in their lane have lasted as long or stayed as sharp.
Salem, Oregon's Dead Nexus grind thrash and death metal together into something relentless and uncompromising, built on high-velocity riffs and punishing rhythms. They hit hard and leave little room to breathe.
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