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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Dauphin, Pennsylvania's Day of Wrath lay into groove metal's mid-tempo churn with focused, blunt-instrument intensity. Since 2019, they've built their sound around the kind of pummeling riff dynamics that demand a physical response from an audience.
Daymare is a groove metal band from Donetsk, Ukraine, formed in 2016. The project delivers heavy groove metal from the Donbas region.
Days of Anger is a groove metal band from Eskilstuna, Sweden, formed in 2022. The project delivers heavy groove metal from central Sweden.
Days of Grace is a groove metal band from Merseburg, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver heavy, rhythmic grooves with a powerful, modern metal edge.
Michigan's Dead Against carve out a hybrid niche where melodic death metal hooks collide with groove-driven chugs and metalcore structure, drawing on influences from Gothenburg to the American midwest. Their music hits hard and lingers through the melody.
Dead Age is a thrash/groove metal and metalcore band from Rostock, Germany, active since 2014. They combine the rhythmic weight of groove metal with thrash's speed and metalcore's modern edge.
Coming out of Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, Dead Albatross combine groove-laden rhythms with melodic death metal sensibility — a sound shaped as much by the region's gritty heat as by Scandinavian influences.
Northridge, California's Dead Alive meld melodic death metal's emotive sweep with groove metal's physical punch and metalcore's structural dynamics. Their sound moves fluidly between atmospheric melody and outright brutality.
Dead Bastards plays thrash/groove metal with crossover elements from Saint Petersburg, formed in 2022. Their defiantly crude name drives high-energy compositions that merge thrash velocity with groove metal's punch and punk's attitude.
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