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Divine (2024)
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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Deathbearer is a death metal/hardcore/crust band from Hamburg, Germany, formed in 2015. They combine death metal's brutality with hardcore and crust punk's raw urgency and D-beat energy.
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Tacoma's Deathbed Confessions smash sludge metal's tar-thick heaviness into hardcore's convulsive urgency, producing something that sounds like a breakdown in every sense of the word. They've been a force on the South Sound heavy scene since 2012.
Out of Bismarck, North Dakota, Deathbed Dichotomy navigate the tension between blackened aggression and progressive metal's structural ambition — a pairing that feels especially stark given the band's remote northern plains origin. They've been at it since 2013.
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.
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