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Deadshot is a groove and thrash metal band from Bitola, North Macedonia, formed in 2022. The project delivers heavy groove/thrash metal from the Macedonian underground.
Dallas's Deadtooth throw crossover thrash, death metal, and grindcore into a blender and dare you to keep up — messy, fast, and completely uninterested in making it easy on the listener. Since 2009, they've been one of the DFW underground's most chaotically reliable exports.
Deadwitch plays power/thrash metal from Lisbon, active since 2015 and conjuring the spirit of executed sorceresses through high-energy compositions. Their necromantic name blends occult imagery with a dual-genre approach that pairs power metal's melody with thrash's velocity.
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.
Deaf is a crossover thrash band from Gradara, in the Pesaro and Urbino province of Italy, formed in 2015. The project fuses thrash metal aggression with punk energy in a fast and furious crossover assault.
Deaf Aid is a thrash/death metal band from Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany, active since 2008. They deliver fierce crossover thrash and death metal with relentless energy.
Deaf Circuit is a death/thrash metal band from Blackburn, England, active since 2006. With two decades of activity, they are experienced death/thrash practitioners from Lancashire.
Deaf Indians is a German thrash metal act active since 2013, delivering riff-heavy, high-velocity compositions in the tradition of classic thrash. Their music channels the genre's golden era through a modern German lens, prioritizing speed and aggression above all.
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