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Irvington, New York's Death Island traveled from punk roots to a mature blackened death metal sound over the course of their career, growing increasingly complex and atmospheric along the way. Formed in 2022, the Hudson Valley act brings melodic sensibility to extreme metal's harshest textures.
Death Karma is a black and death metal band originally from Slovakia, later based in Prague, formed in 2013. The project delivers dark extreme metal with Czech and Slovak underground roots.
Death Kommander is a death metal band from Edinburgh, Scotland, formed in 2018. They command death metal forces from the Scottish capital.
Death Lab is a technical death metal band from Bordeaux, France, active since 2013. They conduct technical death metal experiments from southwestern France.
Death League is a melodic death metal band from Larissa, Greece, formed in 2021. The band deliver melodic death metal rooted in the Scandinavian tradition, contributing to the growing Greek melodic death metal scene.
Charlotte, North Carolina's Death Legion have been marching through the Southeast's black/death metal underground since 2019, combining both genres' most brutal tendencies into a relentless frontal assault. Their sound doesn't split the difference so much as weaponize both simultaneously.
Death like Mass is a black metal band from Kielce, Poland, formed in 2015. The project channels dark and atmospheric black metal from the Swietokrzyskie region.
Pleasanton's Death Machine fuse industrial grit with progressive ambition, constructing mechanized soundscapes that grind and evolve in equal measure. Since 2016, they've been building a cold, calculated sonic architecture.
Portland's Death Machine drag heavy metal into the gutter with crust punk's filth and fury, a grimy collision born from the Pacific Northwest's underground in 2016. Raw, loud, and decidedly unpolished.
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