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Actin' Up (2023)
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Fertile Green (2012)
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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Future Sequence: Live at the Fidelitorium (2015)
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Death Struggle plays melodic death metal from Arkhangelsk on the White Sea, active since 2021 and channeling the harsh Arctic climate into compositions that balance melody with mortal combat. Their survival-themed name suits music forged in one of Russia's most inhospitable regions.
Death Temple is a blackened death metal band from Salzburg, founded in 2006 and active ever since. Their 2015 full-length Dominion of the Night, with standout tracks "In the Claws of the Harpii" and the title track, sits in the tradition of underground war metal, drawing comparisons to Denouncement Pyre and Embrace of Thorns.
Death Thrashers Kuopio is a death/thrash metal band from Kuopio, Finland, formed in 2016. They carry their city's name proudly through ferocious death/thrash.
Death Throne is a black/death metal band from Lyon, France, active since 1999. With over a quarter century of history, they are veterans of the Lyon extreme metal scene.
Loveland, Colorado's Death upon the Ignorant blend deathcore's structural punishment with straightforward death metal aggression, never letting the breakdowns overshadow the brutality. They've been developing their sound in the Front Range underground since 2017.
Death Valley Suicide is a melodic deathcore band from Bad Berka, Germany, active since 2014. They blend melodic hooks with devastating deathcore breakdowns and extreme vocals.
Cincinnati's Death Warmed Over deliver death metal that sounds like it clawed itself out of the Ohio River — reeking, relentless, and thoroughly unglamorous. Formed in 2021, they've wasted no time establishing a properly suffocating identity.
Death Whistle is a death, symphonic, and thrash metal band from Como, Italy, formed in 2020. The project merges death metal brutality with symphonic arrangements and thrash metal velocity in an ambitious Italian extreme metal blend.
Death Whore is a death metal/crust band from Nancy, France, formed in 2020. They deliver filthy death metal and crust from Lorraine.
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