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Die Sunde is a black metal band from Padua, Italy, formed in 2020. The project's German-titled name, meaning 'The Sin,' reflects its dark and transgressive approach to black metal.
A metal band from Bregenz, Vorarlberg, Austria, spanning death metal, melodic death metal, metalcore, and thrash metal influences. Based in Austria's westernmost state, they represent the active metal underground of the Vorarlberg region bordering Germany and Switzerland.
Die Tonight, performing as We Die Tonight, is a metalcore and melodic death metal band from Bristol, England, active since 2010. Their releases including the EPs Stem the Tide and Portraits earned them recognition in the British underground for their blend of crushing brutality and melodic hardcore passion.
A Viennese darkwave and neoclassical project founded in 1993 by Richard Lederer (Protector) and Michael Gregor (Silenius) of the black metal band Summoning. Their music consists entirely of keyboards and vocals — drawing on poets John Dowland and Percy Bysshe Shelley — and their third album 'In Darkness Let Me Dwell' (1999) was released via Napalm Records.
Die Vorboten started as a death/folk metal band in the coastal city of Wismar before transitioning into industrial hard rock, tracing one of the more unusual genre arcs in the German underground. Their German name — meaning "the harbingers" — proved prophetic, as they heralded their own sonic transformation.
Politically charged hardcore punk veterans from Houston.
DieBartDie is a death metal and deathcore project from Hereford, England, created by A.D. Marcovecchio, who also performs as Ascaris. The project layers brutal slam and beatdown riffs over samples from The Simpsons, a tongue-in-cheek approach showcased on the 2023 compilation I Can't Believe I Ate the Whole Thing.
Dieblast is a death/thrash/groove metal band from Santiago, Chile, formed around 2015 and anchored by Christian Argandoña (ex-Thornafire) on vocals and bass alongside producer Pablo Navarrete of Hielo Negro on bass, Eddie Valdebenito on guitar, and Fernando Rojas on drums. The band made their public debut in early 2022 with the politically charged single "Caos, Sangre, Peste," recorded at Panzound Estudios.
Diebrator is a melodic thrash metal band from San Justo, Buenos Aires, founded by guitarists Lucas Coronel and Elias Pérez with a stated aim of stepping outside conventional thrash conventions. The band released the EP Desnaturalización in October 2015, followed by the full-length Violencia/La Máscara de la Brutalidad in November 2016.
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