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Death Certificate is a death metal band from Golbey, France, formed in 2024. They deliver certified death metal from the Vosges region.
Death Chamber is a death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2019. They play claustrophobic, suffocating death metal with relentless intensity.
Lakeland, Florida's Death Chant have been practicing their unholy fusion of black and death metal since 2005, funneling Floridian heat into cold, ritualistic extremity. Their music occupies the brutal intersection of death metal riffing and black metal atmosphere.
Death Chaos is a death metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2017 and signed to Polution Records. The band draws on themes of death, horror, and serial killers, and has released albums including "Bring Them to Die" (2018) and "Conjuration of the Dead" (2021), while also appearing on multiple Brazilian metal compilations.
Death Chapel is a black and death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project merges black metal with death metal.
Death Comes in Waves started as a melodic death/thrash metal band in Recklinghausen before evolving toward melodic black/death metal, tracing a darkening arc through their catalog. Their oceanic name captures the rhythmic, cyclical nature of their music — aggression that ebbs and surges like tidal forces.
Death Comes Pale is a death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, active since 2011. They deliver pale, cold death metal from Denmark's second city.
Death Conspiracy is a technical death metal band from the greater São Paulo area of Brazil, formed in 2020, citing influences such as Death, Necrophagist, Decapitated, and Spawn of Possession. Their debut EP "Intolerance," released in December 2020, received recognition from Brazilian metal press for its complex, brutal arrangements and lyrics addressing conspiratorial and socio-political themes.
Death Control is a death/thrash metal and metalcore band from Lille, France, formed in 2015. They blend extreme metal aggression with metalcore from northern France.
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