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Featured Album
Divine (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
Agamemnon (2025)
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Featured Power Metal Album
Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/07 @ Gramercy Theatre, New York
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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.
Wilmington, Delaware's Dead and Buried lock thrash metal's forward momentum into metalcore's breakdown-heavy framework, churning out material that's equal parts pit-ready aggression and technically driven riffing.
Dead Colony plays metalcore from Moscow, channeling colonial decay into heavy, breakdown-driven compositions. Their failed-settlement name adds a historical dimension to the genre's typical themes of collapse and confrontation.
Dead Dreams is an Austrian metalcore and thrash-influenced death metal band from the Wels and Marchtrenk area of Upper Austria. The band blends melodic death metal hooks with metalcore song structures, releasing music through Bandcamp aimed at the European extreme metal underground.
Springfield, Virginia's Dead Eternity blend melodic death metal aggression with metalcore's rhythmic punch, carving out a modern extreme sound from the DC metro fringe since 2025. Their approach favors sharp hooks over pure brutality.
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 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's Path is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from Dalarna, Sweden, formed in 2020. The project blends melodic death metal with metalcore intensity.
Dead Men Walking is a Belgian death metal and metalcore band whose setlist documentation shows activity across the Belgian underground scene. The band occupies a crossover space between old-school death metal brutality and the structural sensibilities of metalcore.
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