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The Fear (2022)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Dial Tone (2022)
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66,50'N,28,40'E (Live in Helsinki) (2021)
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Pennsylvania's Death Descending operate out of Du Bois, combining death metal brutality with hardcore's confrontational energy for a style rooted in aggression rather than technicality. Formed in 2023, they represent the continuing vitality of extreme metal in the Rust Belt.
Pomona, California's Death Descends emerged in 2024 fusing the suffocating density of death metal with the frost and malice of black metal, carving space in the Inland Empire's growing extreme metal underground. Their sound leans into dissonance and speed in equal measure.
Death Design is a progressive death metal band from Pori, Finland, formed in 2016. They architect death metal with progressive ambition from the Satakunta coast.
Death Dimensions is a progressive death metal band from Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Spain, active since 2014. They explore multiple dimensions of death metal through progressive songwriting.
Death Diver plays death metal from Moscow, formed in 2023 and plunging headfirst into the genre's deepest waters. Their name captures the suicidal commitment their music demands — a full-speed descent into crushing sonic depths.
Death Divine is a melodic death metal/metalcore band from Ripley, England, formed in 2017. They deliver divine melodic aggression from Derbyshire.
Death Domain is a death metal band from Zurich, Switzerland, formed in 2020 and channeling the primal aggression of underground extreme metal. Their sound draws on old-school death metal traditions with a raw, uncompromising sonic approach.
Providence, Rhode Island's Death Doom Thrash wear their influences as a banner rather than a disguise, threading death/doom's weight through the New England underground since 2018. The name is a manifesto: expect slow grinding heaviness with occasional bursts of thrash-driven urgency.
Death Embrace is a death/thrash metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2021. They fuse death metal's brutality with thrash's aggressive precision.
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