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Death Cross is a heavy/thrash metal band from Torrejón de Ardoz, Spain, formed in 2017. They play fierce heavy/thrash metal from Madrid's metropolitan area.
Death Crusade is a band from Gdańsk, Poland, combining crust punk, hardcore, d-beat, grindcore and metal. Its releases include Rakieta /// Bomba, the full-length Znów płonie niebo and the Wojna split EP. The group's catalog reflects those overlapping punk and extreme metal influences.
Death Crusader plays heavy metal from the Stavanger/Haugesund corridor of Rogaland, active since 2017 and marching through riff-driven compositions with zealous conviction. Their crusader imagery lends medieval martial energy to classic heavy metal.
Death Crush in Hell operate from Marília, an interior city in São Paulo state best known for its agricultural-industrial economy and not for extreme metal, which is exactly the kind of unlikely setting that has historically produced some of Brazil's most uncompromising underground bands. Working in raw, anti-clerical black metal, the project sits in the long bloodline that runs from Mystifier, Sarcófago and Vulcano through the regional satanic and blasphemous black metal undergrounds that have always existed parallel to São Paulo's better-documented thrash and death metal scenes. Their stated discography centres on two long-players: 'Destrua a Religião' (2015), a manifesto-titled record opening with an instrumental Intro before driving into the title track and the venomous 'Pedófilos Ladrões Imundos,' an unambiguous swipe at clerical corruption that is more or less a recurring obsession of Brazilian black metal; and 'Soberana Escuridão' (2016), which expands on the same themes through the title cut, 'Fuck Religion' and the necro-themed 'Demônios No Cemitério.' The latter two tracks later resurfaced on digital streaming compilations distributed through Amazon Music and other platforms in 2024, giving the band a small second life beyond the CD-R and tape circuit. Lyrically the band keeps to Portuguese for the conceptual centrepieces and English for the most direct attacks, a code-switching tactic common among Brazilian black metal acts who want regional resonance and international reach at once. Stylistically they belong to the second-wave influenced, lo-fi current of the Brazilian underground rather than to any war-metal or melodic strand. Marília itself remains a peripheral node in the wider Paulista metal map, and Death Crush in Hell's persistence as an active unit there is consistent with the broader pattern of interior-São Paulo extreme metal bands operating largely outside the capital's circuit.
Hammonton, New Jersey's Death Cült Messiah blend the slow-burn heaviness of doom metal with rock-leaning song structures and an occult undercurrent since 2017. The umlaut signals their intent: this is doom with ceremonial weight, not just stoner riffing.
Harrodsburg, Kentucky's Death Dealer arrived in 2023 armed with straight-ahead thrash aggression and the chip-on-shoulder energy of a band with something to prove. Their corner of rural Kentucky doesn't have much of a metal scene, which only seems to fuel their attack.
Encinitas, California's Death Dealer bring a power metal approach honed since 2023, drawing on the melodic grandeur and technical precision that define the West Coast's take on the genre. Their coastal origins inform a sound that's polished without sacrificing edge.
Los Angeles's Death Dealer Union plant their flag firmly in classic heavy metal territory, channeling the riff-first sensibility and hard rock muscle that defined the genre's golden era. Formed in 2023, they're part of a Southern California revival of no-frills, hook-driven metal.
Death Decline is a thrash/death metal band from Dijon, France, formed in 2015. They deliver declining thrash/death from the Burgundian capital.
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