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People Watching (2024)
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L'Enfant Sauvage (Special Edition) (2012)
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The Necrotic Manifesto (Bonus Tracks Edition) (2023)
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Among the Shadows (2024)
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Dead Marshland is a black metal band from Asselfingen, Germany, formed in 2022. They channel the desolation of their namesake through cold, atmospheric black metal.
Kenosha, Wisconsin's Dead Meat play crossover thrash with the blue-collar conviction of a rust belt act that learned its trade in cramped bars and parking lot shows since 2020. Fast, mean, and built on the bones of classic hardcore and thrash.
Columbia, Missouri's Dead Medusa have been turning death/thrash into something petrifying since 2017, operating out of the Midwest's college-town underground with a sound that bites hard from every angle. The serpentine riffs live up to the mythology.
Dead Memories is a death metal band from Visbek, Germany, formed in 2021. They deliver intense death metal that channels darkness and aggression in equal measure.
Dead Men Tell No Tales is a death and groove metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2014. The project fuses death metal heaviness with groove metal's rhythmic punch in an aggressive Roman extreme metal combination.
Dead Men Walking is a Belgian death metal and metalcore band whose setlist documentation shows activity across the Belgian underground scene. The band occupies a crossover space between old-school death metal brutality and the structural sensibilities of metalcore.
Fresno, California's Dead Monster Galaxy have been carving out progressive metal territory in California's Central Valley since 2020, building expansive, technically adventurous compositions far from the coasts. Their ambition matches the vast agricultural plains around them.
Dead Monuments is a doom metal band from Miskolc, Hungary, active since 2002. With over two decades of activity, the band have maintained a presence in the Hungarian doom metal scene through their self-titled release and earlier demo material.
Emerging from New Jersey's Pine Barrens since 2011, Dead Mountain channel the ancient, forested bleakness of that strange and isolated landscape into raw, atmospheric black metal. The region's folklore and desolation seep through every track.
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