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Olympia, Washington's Deadbeat Blackout bring a hard rock swagger to heavy metal, roughing up the genre's cleaner edges with the DIY spirit their Pacific Northwest home is known for. Formed in 2018, they're a bar-band-at-its-best proposition for fans of hooks and muscle.
Deadfall was a thrash and heavy metal band from Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2011. The band played aggressive, Brazilian-style thrash metal before eventually splitting up. They are listed on the Encyclopaedia Metallum, representing Londrina's underground metal scene.
Cleveland's Deadiron draw from the city's blue-collar grit, forging heavy and power metal with workmanlike conviction since 2012. Their 216 area code Bandcamp handle is a point of pride for a city that takes its metal seriously.
Loveland, Colorado's Deadless play heavy and thrash metal with the high-energy directness of a band that formed at the foot of the Rockies in 2022 and hasn't slowed down since. Raw, riff-forward, and uninterested in subtlety.
Neenah, Wisconsin's Deadline play straight-up heavy metal with the no-nonsense attitude of a small Midwest city that doesn't need critical endorsement to rock, formed in 2022 and immediately blunt about their intentions. Less trend, more iron.
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.'
Virginia's Deadly Friend channel heavy metal's classic hard rock instincts into something modern and slightly sinister, the band name's horror-film connotation fitting their occasionally dark sensibility. Formed in 2022, they're still cutting their teeth but clearly know their way around a riff.
Deadly Magic is a progressive heavy/power metal band from Remscheid, Germany, formed in 2024. They weave progressive complexity through powerful heavy and power metal foundations.
New Brunswick, New Jersey's Deadly Nights have been playing traditional heavy metal since 2013, drawing from the genre's classic blueprint without apology or irony. In a city with strong punk roots, they make the case that metal's old ways still hit.
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