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Soundtrack to Your Escape (The Quiet Place Version) (2022)
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Dzelme is a black, death, and doom metal band from Latvia, formed in 2021. The project merges three pillars of extreme metal darkness from the Latvian underground.
Dzelzs Vilks is a death metal band from Sigulda, Latvia, formed in 1995. One of the veteran extreme metal acts in the Baltic region, the project has delivered decades of death metal from the Latvian underground.
Dal Riata is a Celtic-themed melodic death metal band from Glasgow, formed in 2017. Their 2024 self-titled album draws heavily from Celtic mythology and folklore, with eight tracks referencing figures like Cu Chulainn, the Battle of Mag Tuired, Andraste, and the Nine Maidens of Dundee.
Damonium plays death/groove metal from Yaroslavl on the Volga, active since 2010 and delivering heavy, rhythmically driven compositions from the historic Golden Ring city. Their demonic name and umlaut decoration add Germanic menace to Russian extreme metal.
Döxa is a melodic gothic/death metal band from Madrid, Spain, formed in 2015. They blend gothic elegance with melodic death metal from the Spanish capital.
Stubbornly devoted to the riff, this death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal act from São João da Madeira traffics in guttural vocals and churning downtuned riffs. Since 2015, they've built a catalog that reflects Portugal's intimate but fiercely devoted metal community.
Pittsburgh's E.F.6 tears through the intersection of death metal and goregrind with blunt-force efficiency, formed in 2018 and operating in a city with a long tradition of underground extremity.
Death/thrash metal band from Lille, France formed in 2014. They deliver electric, high-energy extreme metal from northern France.
Pesaro, Italy — death metal and deathcore of the most uncompromising kind. Active since 2011, they deal in percussive blast-beat onslaughts and cavernous production. Low-tuned guitars and guttural vocals form the bedrock of their attack.
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