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I Am the Void (Drumcorps Remix) (2024)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Downers Grove, Illinois's Fall of Eden has been pursuing melodic death metal since 2014, bringing Swedish-influenced melody and riffcraft to the Chicago suburbs with the kind of sustained commitment the genre rewards.
A doom/death outfit from Tempe, Arizona, Fall of Empyrean emerged in 2020 with a sound built on suffocating low-end weight and cavernous atmosphere. They drag the listener through extended passages of grief-laden riffs where doom's glacial crawl meets death metal's crushing finality.
South Carolina's Fall of Gnosis fuses the corrosive heft of sludge metal with death metal's violent precision, arriving on the scene in 2023 with an immediately caustic identity. The pairing lends their music an abrasive, tar-thick quality that rewards patient listeners willing to sit in the muck.
Fall of Man is a death metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2019. The band channels crushing death metal from Spain's third-largest city on the Mediterranean coast.
Fall of Pantheon is a death metal band from Copenhagen, Denmark, formed in 2012. The band channels crushing death metal from the Danish capital.
Fall of Serenity is a melodic death metal band from Plauen, Germany, formed in 2006. The band delivers Scandinavian-influenced melodic death metal from the Vogtland region of Saxony.
Fall to Flames is a deathcore band from Nottingham, England, formed in 2015. The band delivers crushing deathcore from the East Midlands city.
Fallcie is a melodic death/alternative metal/metalcore band from Saint Petersburg, Russia, formed in 2017. They blend Scandinavian melodic death metal with alternative metal accessibility from Russia's cultural capital on the Baltic.
One of Los Angeles' longer-running death metal acts, Fallen Angel have persisted since 1992 in a city that's churned through thousands of bands — a testament to their commitment to the form. Their longevity in the L.A. underground speaks to a stubborn dedication to death metal's roots.
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