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Termination Redux (EP) (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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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.
Deadly Trap is a death, progressive, and thrash metal band from the Collegno, Grugliasco, and Turin area of Italy, formed in 2018. The project blends technical death metal with progressive structures and thrash metal velocity.
Deadnate is a progressive groove metal band from Fredericia, Denmark, formed in 2018. They push groove metal into progressive territory with ambitious songwriting.
DeadOpera is a progressive and symphonic metal band from Messina, Sicily, formed in 2022. The project merges theatrical symphonic arrangements with progressive metal complexity in an ambitious Sicilian metal vision.
Detroit's Deadstream bring a progressive metal sensibility to a city better known for industrial heaviness, carving out complex, dynamic compositions since their 2022 formation. Their music rewards close listening as much as it rewards volume.
Denver's DeadVessel navigate the intersection of stoner, groove, and progressive metal with the high-altitude confidence of a band comfortable pushing ideas in multiple directions at once. Formed in 2015, they blend head-nodding heaviness with genuine structural ambition.
DeadWaterCreek plays progressive sludge metal from Moscow, active since 2017 and navigating the murky intersection of progressive complexity and sludge metal's crushing weight. Their stagnant-water name evokes the toxic, slow-moving heaviness that defines their sound.
DeadXhead plays thrash/progressive metal from Glazov in the Udmurt Republic, active since 2014 and merging thrash's velocity with progressive metal's structural ambition. Their music channels the remoteness of the Ural region into compositions that refuse to follow predictable paths.
Chicago's Deadzone push melodic death and thrash metal through the city's well-worn extreme metal infrastructure, delivering technically assured and rhythmically relentless material since 2016. Precise but never sterile.
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