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Death Funeral plays black metal from Timisoara, active since 2017 and doubling down on mortality through a name that pairs death with its ritual aftermath. Their compositions channel the Banat region's cultural melancholy into atmospheric black metal.
Death Fury is a death and thrash metal band from Ostend, Belgium, formed in 2022 and currently active as an independent act. The coastal city's relatively sparse metal scene provides the backdrop for a project intent on delivering uncompromising extreme metal in the classic European tradition.
Virginia Beach's Death Harvest tend a crop of sun-scorched stoner doom, wringing heavy psych fuzz and oppressive tempos out of the coastal Virginia underground since 2022. Their riffs sprawl and crush in equal measure, conjuring images of flat farmland and burning sky.
Death Has Gone is a black metal project from the Trentino-Alto Adige/South Tyrol region of Italy, formed in 2016. With bilingual English-Russian titling on releases like 'sulphuris et arsenium,' the project blends avant-garde and experimental elements into its black metal framework.
Death Has Spoken is a death and doom metal band from Bialystok, Poland, formed in 2017. The project merges death metal's aggression with doom metal's crushing weight from eastern Poland.
Death Head is a progressive thrash metal band from Portsmouth, England, formed in 2018. They push thrash into progressive territory from the Hampshire coast.
Death Heaven is a death metal band from Schio, in the Vicenza province of Veneto, Italy, formed in 2007. Later evolving into the acclaimed Ad Nauseam in 2011, the project's album 'Viral Apocalypse' fused influences from Morbid Angel and Fear Factory into experimental technical death metal.
Brooklyn's Death Icon fuse death and black metal within the borough's fierce underground, combining death metal's brute force with black metal's tremolo-heavy atmosphere since 2017. New York City's density and darkness seep into every passage of their recorded material.
Lewiston, Idaho's Death Illuminate have been practicing an isolated, self-sufficient strain of black metal since 2017, far removed from coastal scene politics and all the better for it. Their music carries the austere quality of their Pacific Northwest surroundings.
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