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For All To Blame (2022)
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Ripping / Pulling / Tearing (2019)
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Rarities 1991 - 2001 (2024)
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Deathbell is a doom metal band from Toulouse, France, formed in 2018. They toll crushing doom from the pink city of southwestern France.
Deathblade is a heavy/thrash metal band from Dorset, England, formed in 2020. They deliver blade-sharp heavy/thrash from the southern English coast.
Gainesville's Deathblender arrived in 2024 already comfortable fusing death metal's technical brutality with hardcore's confrontational snap — a natural evolution for a Florida city with deep roots in both worlds.
Phoenix's Deathbloom bring desert-baked brutality to brutal death metal, piling on punishing riffs and guttural vocals with the kind of relentless conviction that defines the Southwest's strongest extreme metal acts. Formed in 2021.
Ruthless Death Metal from Lufkin.
Deathbound is a death metal/grindcore band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2008. They deliver relentless extremity from Finland's industrial heartland.
Deathbrith Experience plays raw black metal from Russia, active since 2020 and whose deliberately misspelled name conflates death with birth into a single traumatic event. Their lo-fi approach strips black metal to its most primal, unprocessed state.
Deathbus is a crossover/thrash metal and crust band from the Belfast/Lisburn area of Northern Ireland, formed in 2016. They ride the deathbus through fierce crossover thrash and crust.
Deathcaller is a death and thrash metal band from Torun, Poland, formed in 2017. The project fuses death metal's crushing weight with thrash metal's velocity from the Kuyavia-Pomerania region.
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