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People Watching (2024)
Featured Groove Metal Album
L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
11/14 @ The Majestic Ventura Theater, Ventura
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Dead Crown is a black metal/ambient project from Bayonne, France, active since 2009. They blend black metal's darkness with ambient textures from the Basque coast.
Greenville, South Carolina's Dead Crustacean apply an experimental lens to grindcore, twisting the genre's blunt-force template into strange, lurching shapes that reward repeated listens. An outlier in the Southeast's metal underground.
Lansing, Michigan's Dead Daughters sink deep into the overlap between stoner and doom metal, building slow, haze-soaked riffs that feel at once colossal and oddly meditative. The Rust Belt atmosphere seeps into every drawn-out note.
Dead Demons is a heavy metal/hard rock band from Doncaster, England, formed in 2020. They deliver classic heavy metal and hard rock from South Yorkshire.
Citrus Heights, California's Dead Desolation arrived in 2024 with depressive raw black metal that strips the genre to its barest, most corroded essentials — lo-fi production, harrowing atmosphere, and zero concern for listenability.
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.
Ferocious Thrash / Groove Metal from Austin.
Cincinnati's Dead Ecstasy specialize in slow-building sludge metal that weaponizes repetition and volume — the kind of music that feels like a hangover and a bruise at the same time. A recent entry in Ohio's quietly formidable heavy underground.
Dead Edition is a melodic death and groove metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2016. The project blends melodic death metal with groove riffing from the Ukrainian capital.
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