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Irrational Pull (2020)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Rochester's Damn Chili serve up goregrind and brutal death metal with the kind of absurdist irreverence the subgenre demands, fusing surgical heaviness with gleeful grotesquery since 2008. They lean fully into the nastier end of the underground, with no apologies.
Damn Human emerged in 2021 as a melodic death metal project defined by fluid riffcraft and a sense of melodic purpose that elevates the material above genre workmanship. Their approach takes the emotional core of melodeath seriously without sacrificing edge.
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Damn Nation plays death metal and grindcore from Lille in northern France, formed in 2025 and delivering rapid-fire extremity from the industrial heart of French Flanders. Their damning name channels righteous fury into microsecond bursts of sonic violence.
Chicago's Damn the Buzzards emerged in 2022 with a stoner metal sound built on fuzz-drenched riffs, heavy grooves, and the loose, hazy swagger that the genre does best. A welcome addition to the city's heavy underground, channeling desert rock energy through a Midwest filter.
Fort Madison, Iowa's Damn the Gods have been pushing slow, heavy stoner doom from the middle of the country since 2005, a two-decade run that speaks to the resilience of heavy music far from major scenes. Their sound is rooted in riff worship and the meditative pull of low tempos.
Los Angeles' Damn the Machine revived their name in 2021 to continue delivering progressive metal marked by technical fluency and compositional ambition. Originally active in the early 1990s, the band brought a cerebral, labyrinthine approach to metal that remains distinctive.
New York City's Damn Your Eyes launched in 2020 with a groove metal attack built on locked-in, bruising rhythms and hard rock attitude. Their sound draws on the mid-90s groove metal tradition while keeping enough rock grit to feel immediate and alive.
Damn Youth is a thrash metal and crossover band from Caucaia, Ceará, Brazil, active since around 2013 and signed to UGH! Discos. The band debuted with the 2015 demo "Skate in Hell" and released their full-length album "Breathing Insanity" in 2018, a 13-track record praised for blending old-school thrash aggression with punk energy; they followed it with the album "Descends Into Disorder" in 2023.
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