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Dead Head Down is a death/thrash metal band from Münster, Germany, active since 2012. They fuse the heaviness of death metal with thrash's relentless speed and precision.
Formed in 2016, Dead Heat deal in straightforward, sweat-drenched heavy metal that keeps its head down and its riffs loud. Unpretentious and built for live stages, they channel the timeless energy of a band with nothing to prove but everything to play.
Oxnard, California's Dead Heat are a crossover act in the true sense — born from hardcore's aggression and thrash's technical ferocity, they've been carving out their niche in the Ventura County underground since 2016. Fast, loud, and uncompromising.
Dead Horizon is a death metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2024. They bring fresh brutality to the German death metal scene with uncompromising heaviness.
Houston thrash with a sludgy, punky edge. Cult classics of the late-80s Texas scene.
Aurora, Colorado's Dead Human Collection specialize in goregrind and death metal of the ugliest, most visceral variety, exhuming carnage from the Denver metro underground since 2014. Expect no melody, no mercy, and no survivors.
California's Dead Icarus weld groove metal's rhythmic swagger to metalcore's structural punch, arriving in 2023 with a sound that hits hard and moves hard. Their name promises a fall from grace, and the music delivers it.
Dead Ideas plays thrash metal from Belgrade, active since 2021 and resurrecting aggressive riffing from the graveyard of exhausted concepts. Their name's nihilistic implication — that ideas themselves can die — drives compositions fueled by creative urgency.
Portland, Oregon's Dead in a Ditch have been combining death metal's grotesque heaviness with grindcore's manic velocity since 2011, a reliable fixture in the Pacific Northwest's extreme underground. Short songs, maximum damage.
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