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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Cleveland's Dead of Night pull from melodic death and thrash traditions equally, crafting a sound rooted in classic Rust Belt ferocity with a sharp melodic edge. The city's long history of heavy music finds a worthy continuation in their hands.
Chicago's Dead of Winter specialize in the slow, crushing intersection of death and doom, conjuring the grim weight of a Great Lakes winter that never quite ends. Heavy, deliberate, and suffocating in all the right ways.
Kansas City's Dead on Collision smash death metal, grindcore, and hardcore into a single explosive wreck, built for speed and maximum damage. Formed in 2023, they operate with the urgency of a band with nothing to prove and everything to destroy.
Dead on Mars is a progressive/symphonic death metal band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2018. They combine the technical ambition of progressive metal with symphonic grandeur and death metal's ferocity.
Dead Puzzle is a death metal and deathcore band from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, formed in 2016. The project delivers punishing extreme metal from central Ukraine.
Dallas' Dead Rising have been a fixture of the North Texas extreme underground since 2016, churning out death metal and grindcore that owes as much to blast-beat brutality as to the relentless D/FW scene that surrounds them. Fast, violent, and unapologetically extreme.
Dead Rot Chilly Grinders plays death metal and grindcore from Belgrade, active since 2019 and delivering the grotesque, decomposition-themed extremity their name describes. Their elaborate, descriptive name leaves nothing to the imagination about their sonic intentions.
Dead Samaritan is a death/thrash metal band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2014. They play fierce death/thrash from Finland's third-largest city.
Dead Samurai plays death metal from Salamanca, active since 2021 and channeling the discipline and violence of feudal Japanese warrior culture into extreme metal. Their East-meets-West concept adds a unique thematic layer to straightforward, punishing death metal.
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