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Deathlock is a thrash metal band from Carpi in the Modena province, one of the longer-running acts in the Emilian thrash scene with roots stretching back to 2005. Their two decades of activity have cemented them as a fixture of the local underground thrash circuit.
Deathlust Genocide is a São Paulo project operating in the rawest tradition of South American extreme metal, where the lines between primitive black metal, bestial death, and grindcore have been smudged beyond recognition since the mid-1980s. The band is logged on the Encyclopaedia Metallum and self-releases through a Bandcamp page bearing the title 'Extermínio Sonoro' (Sonic Extermination) - a phrase that doubles as a fairly precise description of the music. Their sound sits in the lineage that runs from Sarcófago's I.N.R.I., Mutilator, and the earliest Vulcano demos through to the modern Brazilian Ritual Records roster: tape-hissed riffs played at grindcore tempos, drums that distort into pure noise, vocals raked across the throat rather than sung. São Paulo, the country's largest metropolis, has carried this aesthetic forward as a kind of regional dialect; while the city is more often associated with the Korzus/Executer school of thrash and the Ratos de Porão crossover scene, its underground has always sheltered a parallel current of bands committed to the deliberately ugly, anti-professional end of the spectrum. Deathlust Genocide belongs squarely to that current. The project is closer in spirit to a tape-trading demo than to a polished studio band, with releases that read like raids - short, ferocious, indifferent to fidelity. The 'Genocide' suffix is a long-standing trope in Brazilian extreme metal naming conventions (see Genocídio's 'The Grave', among others), signaling allegiance to the goat-and-inverted-cross underground rather than to any cleaner modern variant. For listeners tracking the still-active raw black/war metal vein in Brazil, Deathlust Genocide is one of the names that shows up alongside the Brazilian Ritual Records circle, working entirely outside the festival economy.
Deathmace is a death/thrash metal band from York, England, formed in 2018. They wield death/thrash from the historic Viking city.
Founded in 2020 amid Boston's hard-edged underground, Deathmaker deals in straightforward, no-frills death metal built on crushing mid-paced riffs and guttural aggression. Their approach owes more to the old-school US tradition than to any modern trend-chasing.
Deathman is a death-thrash metal band from Mogilev, Belarus, formed in 2015 and forging heavy, aggressive compositions in the Eastern European underground tradition. Their approach blends the intensity of thrash with death metal's crushing weight.
Deathmarch plays death metal from Amersfoort in the province of Utrecht, active since 2017 and advancing through compositions with the relentless, inexorable momentum their name demands. Their music moves forward with the grim determination of a forced march into oblivion.
Deathmarched is a death metal band from Seinäjoki, Finland, formed in 2022. They march through crushing death metal from the Ostrobothnian flatlands.
Pittsburgh's Deathmass has been dragging the Steel City's underground through a tar pit since 2018, blending doom's suffocating weight with the reckless velocity of thrash. The result is a lurching, headbanging hybrid that feels as heavy as the city's industrial bones.
DeathMetalKyle plays groove metal from Oslo, active since 2019 and wrapping genre-subverting humor in a surprisingly personable, first-name-basis band name. Their self-aware approach to heavy, rhythm-driven metal adds a distinctly modern sensibility to traditional groove.
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