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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.
Death Epiphany is a black and death metal band from Sweden, formed in 2021. The project delivers dark extreme metal.
Knoxville, Tennessee's Death Etiquette bring technical death metal's surgical precision to a Southern rock city that rarely produces extreme metal of this caliber. Since 2022 the band has developed a complex, intricate approach where riff arrangements feel more like puzzles than conventional song structures.
Death Feast plays black/death/thrash metal from Lisbon, active since 2018 and setting a banquet table of extreme metal drawn from three of the genre's most aggressive branches. Their gluttonous name suits a sound that devours everything in its path.
Dayton, Ohio's Death Fetish have been serving up brutal death metal punishment since 2020, feeding the Midwest underground with punishing slams and guttural vocals. Their approach is unflinching — purely about impact and physicality.
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