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Ride the Flatline (feat. Jami Morgan & Code Orange) (2024)
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Evidence (2023)
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Agamemnon (2025)
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Michigan's Dead Against carve out a hybrid niche where melodic death metal hooks collide with groove-driven chugs and metalcore structure, drawing on influences from Gothenburg to the American midwest. Their music hits hard and lingers through the melody.
Dead Age is a thrash/groove metal and metalcore band from Rostock, Germany, active since 2014. They combine the rhythmic weight of groove metal with thrash's speed and metalcore's modern edge.
Coming out of Laredo on the Texas-Mexico border, Dead Albatross combine groove-laden rhythms with melodic death metal sensibility — a sound shaped as much by the region's gritty heat as by Scandinavian influences.
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.
Nashville's Dead Alive take thrash metal's velocity and load it with death metal weight, producing a hard-hitting hybrid that stands apart from the city's dominant country and rock scenes. Sharp riffing and aggressive vocals define their approach.
Dead Anatomy is a melodic death/thrash metal band from Aalborg, Denmark, formed in 2019. They combine melodic death metal hooks with thrash metal's aggressive drive.
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.
Chicago's Dead and Buried operate in the murk of straightforward death metal — chunky, brutal, and unadorned. The city's long industrial shadow seems to inform every down-tuned note.
Northern New Jersey's Dead and Dripping traffic in the most punishing end of brutal death metal, building walls of guttural sound from the dense, often overlooked extreme underground of the tristate area. Formed in 2023, they waste no time with subtlety.
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