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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Dying Awkward Angel plays melodic death metal from Turin, pairing the genre's aggressive vocal and rhythmic foundation with emotional, soaring guitar melodies. Their evocative name — an angel dying gracelessly — hints at the tension between beauty and violence that defines their sound.
Dying Blaze is a black metal band from Kramatorsk, Ukraine, formed in 2006. One of the veteran black metal acts from the Donbas region.
San Francisco's Dying Breath launched in 2025 fusing the Bay Area's storied thrash tradition with groove metal's mid-paced, rhythmically locked riffing, occupying familiar but proven territory for the city's metal scene.
Dying Breed is a thrash metal band from Oxford, England, formed in 2017. The band deliver aggressive, riff-heavy thrash metal rooted in the genre's classic traditions.
Dying Creed is an atmospheric/melodic death metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2019. They deliver emotive, atmospheric death metal from the Finnish capital.
Dying Days is an atmospheric gothic metal band from France, active since 2012. They explore dying days through atmospheric gothic metal.
Dying East is a death/thrash metal band from Zupanja, Croatia, formed in 2022. The band deliver aggressive death-thrash metal from the eastern Croatian underground.
Dying Eden is a groove metal band from Mayrhofen in the Austrian Tyrol, active since at least 2017 with the release of their debut Omen and followed by the full-length Perish to Exist in 2021 on 7Hard Records. The five-piece delivers a dense, riff-heavy take on groove and modern metal with strong vocal performances anchoring the rhythm.
Dying Embers was a death/doom metal band from Ponta Grossa, Paraná, Brazil, active from 1997 to 2007. The band combined gothic-tinged lyrics with slow, heavy arrangements, and recorded their debut full-length Ars Moriendi (2002) at their own studio in Ponta Grossa.
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