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Dead Joker plays death metal from Kragujevac, one of Serbia's oldest death metal acts with roots stretching back to 1994. Over three decades they've maintained a commitment to the genre from the industrial heartland of central Serbia.
Dead Jungle Sledge is a southern metal band based in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil, with roots in the inland town of São Joaquim, SC. The band blends heavy groove-driven riffing with stoner and alternative metal influences, drawing comparisons to acts like Monster Truck and Greenleaf. Their debut album "Unmask" was released in April 2020.
Dead Knowledge is a groove and thrash metal band from Braunau am Inn, Austria, whose 2019 album Kryll anchors their catalog with tracks such as "Into the Void" and "Bloodsucker Blues." The band pairs Pantera-informed groove riffing with thrash-driven tempos, drawing comparisons to other European underground acts in the same vein.
Dead Kosmonaut is a heavy metal band from Sweden, formed in 2020. The project delivers classic heavy metal.
Dead Label is a metalcore, groove, and nu-metal band from Celbridge, Ireland, formed in 2016. The band fuse heavy groove riffing with metalcore breakdowns and nu-metal accessibility.
Framingham, Massachusetts's Dead Languages have been speaking in the slow, crushing dialect of sludge and doom since 2012, pulling from New England's bleak winters and dense underground. Their music communicates something ancient and unspeakable.
Dead Leaves is a power and progressive metal band from Alessandria, Italy, formed in 2014. The project blends the melodic grandeur of power metal with the structural complexity of progressive metal.
Grants Pass, Oregon's Dead Leslie tear through speed and thrash metal with the stripped-down urgency of a small-town act with something to prove, formed in 2020 in the Rogue Valley's fringes. Fast tempos and sharp riffs are their native language.
Dead Limbs was a Brazilian atmospheric black metal and post-metal band formed in 2015 and later split up. Their debut release "Lighthouse," put out through Bichano Records, is a six-track EP recorded, produced, and mixed in a home studio, featuring themes that draw on Greek mythology and hermetism. The band's layered, introspective sound placed them within the DIY Brazilian underground extreme metal scene.
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