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Dead Edition is a melodic death and groove metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2016. The project blends melodic death metal with groove riffing from the Ukrainian capital.
Las Vegas' Dead Element bring a melodic edge to their thrash and groove metal palette, crafting songs that hit with purpose behind the glitz and excess of the desert city's entertainment landscape. Sharp hooks live inside dense, riff-heavy arrangements.
California's Dead Icarus weld groove metal's rhythmic swagger to metalcore's structural punch, arriving in 2023 with a sound that hits hard and moves hard. Their name promises a fall from grace, and the music delivers it.
Dead Knowledge is a groove and thrash metal band from Braunau am Inn, Austria, whose 2019 album Kryll anchors their catalog with tracks such as "Into the Void" and "Bloodsucker Blues." The band pairs Pantera-informed groove riffing with thrash-driven tempos, drawing comparisons to other European underground acts in the same vein.
Dead Label is a metalcore, groove, and nu-metal band from Celbridge, Ireland, formed in 2016. The band fuse heavy groove riffing with metalcore breakdowns and nu-metal accessibility.
Dead Man Square is a melodic death/groove metal band from Strasbourg, France, formed in 2015. They deliver heavy melodic grooves from the Alsatian capital.
Dead Men Tell No Tales is a death and groove metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2014. The project fuses death metal heaviness with groove metal's rhythmic punch in an aggressive Roman extreme metal combination.
Bandon, Oregon's Dead Nedry have been serving up hard-hitting groove metal from the wild Oregon Coast since 2011, built on heavy, mid-paced riffs that hit with the force of the Pacific storms off the southern shoreline. They're a fixture of Oregon's underrated metal underground.
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