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Global Flatline (Bonus Track Edition) (2024)
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De Doorn (2022)
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Halo (2017)
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Down on Me is a groove/thrash metal band from Kehl, Germany, active since 2012. They combine heavy grooves with thrash aggression from the Franco-German border region.
Downfade is a groove/stoner metal band with thrash influences from the Kiiminki/Oulu area of Finland, formed in 2019. They fade down through heavy grooves and stoner riffs.
Downswitch is a groove metal/metalcore band from Køge, Denmark, active since 2011. They combine groove metal's weight with metalcore's modern dynamics.
Doomzday is a groove and heavy metal band from Lviv, Ukraine, formed in 2021. The project delivers heavy groove metal from western Ukraine.
Drawkcab is a heavy/thrash/groove metal band from Füssen, Germany, active since 2014. Their reversed name hints at a contrarian spirit matched by their hybrid metal sound.
Dreadbeard is a heavy/groove metal band from Schwerin, Germany, active since 2012. They deliver burly, groove-heavy metal with weight and swagger.
Dreadfire plays thrash/groove metal from Lisbon, active since 2012 and igniting compositions with the fearsome intensity their name promises. Their sound merges thrash's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic weight in a combustible Lisboan hybrid.
Houston's Dreadful have inhabited the bleak corridors of depressive black metal since 2012, crafting music that channels the genre's hallmark anguish and elongated misery with a sincerity that distinguishes them from mere aesthetic exercise. Their Bandcamp presence connects them to a small but devoted audience that seeks out black metal as a form of emotional reckoning rather than spectacle. In a Texas scene dominated by death metal and sludge, they carve out a distinctly isolated and introspective space.
Dreadmaw is a groove and thrash metal band from Bergen, Norway, formed in 2020. The project merges heavy groove riffing with thrash metal velocity from western Norway.
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