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Deathevocation is a death metal band from Mikkeli, Finland, formed in 2020. They summon death metal darkness from the Finnish lakeland.
Chapel Hill's Deathevokation summon old-school death metal with a reverence for the genre's early-nineties foundations — cavernous, deliberate, and committed to the craft rather than trend-chasing. Active since 2020.
Deathfiend is a sludge/doom metal and crust/hardcore punk band from Birmingham, England, formed in 2022. They merge crushing sludge doom with punk ferocity from the second city.
Warrensburg, Missouri's Deathfloor approach progressive metal with the patient, structural curiosity of a band more interested in the journey than the destination — expansive without being indulgent since 2019.
Sacramento's Deathforce split the difference between death metal's brutality and thrash's kinetic momentum, channeling the Central Valley's harder edge into tight, no-nonsense aggression. Active since 2018.
Deathfucker is a thrash/death metal act from Mantua that makes zero pretense about their intentions: raw, unfiltered extreme metal aggression delivered with punk-like directness. Active since 2017, they channel the spirit of early extreme metal's most provocative and unapologetically heavy moments.
DeathFuckingWound is a black metal/grindcore/crust punk band from Finland, emerging in 2025. Their blunt name matches their savage fusion of extreme subgenres.
DeathFusion plays black/death metal from Norway, active since 2018 and welding both genres' most extreme elements into a single, devastating alloy. Their portmanteau name describes their process — the nuclear fusion of black metal's atmosphere with death metal's brutality.
Deathgate is a death and thrash metal band from Turkey, formed in 2023. The project fuses death metal with thrash velocity.
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