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Ridgefield, Washington's Death Wins traffic in sludge metal that sounds like the Pacific Northwest's grey skies finally collapsed — slow, oppressive, and saturated with feedback. Formed in 2023, they hit hard for a young band.
Death Wrath is a black metal band from France. They channel wrathful black metal darkness.
Death Yell formed in Santiago in the late 1980s and recorded their 1989 demo 'Vengeance from Darkness' at Procor Studios, a release that achieved cult status in the global underground and led to split releases with Finland's Beherit and the Morbid Rites 7" on Seraphic Decay Records in 1992. After disbanding in 1991, the band reactivated and returned with the full-length 'Descent into Hell' in 2017, followed by the 'Asmodeus' Disciples' demo and the LP 'Demons of Lust' in 2025. Their sound draws on the raw, violent tradition of South American death and black metal, with clear debts to Brazilian extreme acts of the same era.
Deathaction plays melodic death metal from Rostov-on-Don in southern Russia, active since 2015 and delivering action-packed compositions driven by twin-guitar harmonies and aggressive vocals. Their compound name promises death-as-motion — relentless, kinetic extreme metal.
Deathadorn is a death/thrash metal band from Les Houches, France, formed in 2018. They deliver extreme metal from the shadow of Mont Blanc.
Waupaca, Wisconsin's Deathagent bring groove metal's knuckle-dragging rhythmic lockstep to a small-city scene that rarely gets credit for the heaviness it produces. They've been drilling that mid-tempo pocket into the ground since 2016.
Deathalation is a thrash/groove metal band from Bochum, Germany, formed in 2015. They hammer out groovy, aggressive thrash from the heart of the Ruhr region.
Deathalium plays groove metal from Lappeenranta near the Russian border, active since 2019 and delivering heavy, rhythm-driven compositions from eastern Finland. Their name's chemical-element styling suggests a newly discovered heavy element — appropriately, given the weight of their sound.
New York's Deathalizer play thrash metal with the blunt efficiency of a scene that's always had something to prove — riff-forward, aggressive, and uninterested in compromise since 2020.
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