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Mount Vernon's Deathsquad has been operating since 2016 at the intersection of death and groove metal, bringing New York's hard-knuckled street energy to a genre pairing built entirely for live pit destruction. Big riffs, bigger breakdowns.
Rising from Twin Falls in 2019, Idaho's Deathstalker hunts at the crossroads of death and thrash metal, channeling the kind of relentless forward momentum that comes from playing in a scene with something to prove. Isolated, hungry, and riff-driven.
Deathstar is a death metal band from Most, Czech Republic, channeling raw, crushing extremity through the lens of the Central European underground. Their sound trades in the genre's most primal impulses—heavy riffs, guttural vocals, and unrelenting rhythmic punishment.
Norwood's Deathstate has been cultivating a blackened death metal sound in suburban Massachusetts since 2014, merging the icy dissonance of black metal with the blunt-force attack of American death. Cold skies, colder compositions.
Columbia, South Carolina's Deathstill launched in 2023 with a blackened melodic death metal sound that moves between icy tremolo lines and bruising death metal construction. Young and prolific, they hint at something ambitious taking shape in the Palmetto State underground.
Deathstruck is a melodic death metal band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2014. The band blend Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal with the energy of the Hungarian metal scene.
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Deathswarm is a death metal band from Sweden, formed in 2019. The project delivers classic Swedish death metal.
Deathtale is a death and thrash metal band from Vienna whose career spans from their 2012 album Apocalyptic Deadline through to the 2023 single "The Origin of Hate." The band's 2018 EP Bloodgod is their most-listened release, anchoring a sound built on mid-paced, groove-inflected death metal with thrash tempos and aggressive, hook-forward riffing.
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