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Kentucky's Dead Inside have been delivering old-school death metal with straightforward brutality since 2013, keeping the genre's core values alive in the Bluegrass State. No frills, no filler — just death metal done right.
Tucson, Arizona's Dead Is He combine death metal's brutality with thrash's kinetic precision, channeling the Sonoran Desert's harsh extremes into punishing riff-driven attacks since 2016. There's nothing gentle about the sound or the landscape.
Dead Joker plays death metal from Kragujevac, one of Serbia's oldest death metal acts with roots stretching back to 1994. Over three decades they've maintained a commitment to the genre from the industrial heartland of central Serbia.
Dead Loss is a death metal band from Rheinberg, Germany, active since 2013. They play crushing death metal rooted in the genre's classic traditions of heaviness and aggression.
Dead Man Down is a melodic death metal band from Izmir, Turkey, formed in 2014. The project delivers emotionally charged melodic death metal from the Aegean coast.
Dead Man Square is a melodic death/groove metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy melodic grooves from the Alsatian capital.
Dead Man's Path is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Dalarna, Sweden, formed in 2020. The project blends melodic death metal with metalcore intensity.
Columbia, Missouri's Dead Medusa have been turning death/thrash into something petrifying since 2017, operating out of the Midwest's college-town underground with a sound that bites hard from every angle. The serpentine riffs live up to the mythology.
Dead Memories is a death metal band from Visbek, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver intense death metal that channels darkness and aggression in equal measure.
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