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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Salt Lake City's Dead Revelator have been plowing heavy groove metal furrows since 2013, driven by thick mid-tempo riffs and a muscular directness that cuts through the noise. Their approach is no-frills and built to land.
Phoenix's Dead Swarm started in groove metal's pocket and evolved toward death metal's brutality, reflecting the kind of gradual artistic hardening that comes with surviving the Arizona desert underground. Their trajectory since 2014 has been one of consistent escalation.
Dead Winds is a thrash/groove metal band from Montpellier, France, formed in 2019. They deliver heavy grooves and thrash from southern France.
Deaddrunk is a groove metal and death metal band from Frauenfeld, Switzerland, active since 2008 with a five-piece lineup featuring dual guitarists. Their 2017 EP 'BEWARE' was pressed in a limited run of 500 CDs, combining heavy groove riffs with melodic guitar work and dynamic vocals.
Deadeye is a thrash/groove metal band from the Midlands, England, formed in 2022. They deliver dead-eyed thrash and groove from central England.
Deadgod is a death and groove metal band from Viamão, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, formed in 2014. The band released material on Bandcamp, including their 2014 release "Sometimes you expect me," blending the heaviness of death metal with groove-driven rhythms. They remain active as an independent act in the Brazilian extreme metal underground.
Minneapolis's Deadland craft atmospheric black metal shaped by the long, brutal winters of the upper Midwest, painting sweeping, cold-wind soundscapes since 2017. Their music evokes the wide open desolation of the northern plains.
Benton, Kentucky's Deadlife deliver groove metal from deep in the rural South, channeling the grinding heaviness of a genre built on pocket and punishment since 2017. Small town, thick riffs.
Deadlock Crew is a groove, heavy, and thrash metal band from Trieste, Italy, formed in the late 1990s and active since 2019. The four-piece delivers hard-hitting metal with themes of resilience and adrenaline across releases like 'One Step Back.'
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