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Portland, OR, US · 2013–present · active
Portland's Dead Conspiracy have been mining the crossroads of death and thrash metal since 2013, producing music that feeds on the city's wet-season gloom and the genre's most ferocious impulses in equal measure.
Brooklyn, New York City, NY, US · 2016–present · active
Brooklyn's Dead Corpse grind and pummel through a potent mix of grindcore velocity and death metal savagery — a combination well suited to New York City's loud, overcrowded, and relentlessly competitive underground scene.
Southern California, US · 2017–present · active
Southern California's Dead Cross are a supergroup project that tears through crossover thrash and hardcore punk with an experimental bent — unpredictable, intense, and built from some of the genre's most experienced musicians. Their music moves fast and thinks faster.
Bayonne, FR · 2009–present · active
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, SC, US · 2018–present · active
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, MI, US · 2019–present · active
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.
Doncaster, GB · 2020–present · active
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, CA, US · 2024–present · active
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.
Wels (early)/Marchtrenk (later), AT · 2013–present · active
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.

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