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Death Can Wait is a death and groove metal band from Enniscorthy, Ireland, formed in 2020. The band fuse the heaviness of death metal with the rhythmic punch of groove metal.
Death Carrier is a drone/doom metal project from Lower Saxony, active since 2018 and sculpting massive, sustained tones into glacially paced compositions that carry the weight of oblivion. Their music rewards patience with overwhelming heaviness, each note a slow-motion cataclysm.
Newton, New Jersey's Death Catapult sling slow-burning stoner doom at the audience like boulders through fog, trading speed for weight and atmosphere. Formed in 2025, they draw from the heaviest end of fuzz-soaked doom and psychedelic rock.
Death Certificate is a death metal band from Golbey, France, formed in 2024. They deliver certified death metal from the Vosges region.
Death Chamber is a death metal band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2019. They play claustrophobic, suffocating death metal with relentless intensity.
Lakeland, Florida's Death Chant have been practicing their unholy fusion of black and death metal since 2005, funneling Floridian heat into cold, ritualistic extremity. Their music occupies the brutal intersection of death metal riffing and black metal atmosphere.
Death Chaos is a death metal band from Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2017 and signed to Polution Records. The band draws on themes of death, horror, and serial killers, and has released albums including "Bring Them to Die" (2018) and "Conjuration of the Dead" (2021), while also appearing on multiple Brazilian metal compilations.
Death Chapel is a black and death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project merges black metal with death metal.
Billings, Montana's Death Chariot are one of the more unlikely outposts of American power metal, delivering soaring vocals and galloping riffs from the high plains since 2005. Their two-decade run makes them veterans of a regional scene where traditional heavy metal rarely finds an audience.
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