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Slaughter & Apparatus - A Methodical Overture (2023)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Featured Death Metal Album
Coronary Reconstruction (EP) (2024)
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DownPitch is a death metal band from Aarhus, Denmark, active since 2014. They play heavy, down-tuned death metal with crushing intensity.
Downscape is a death metal band from Münster, Germany, active since 2014. They play crushing death metal with a downward-spiraling intensity.
Downstream is a melodic death metal band from Streithausen, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver emotive melodic death metal from the Westerwald region.
Downthroat plays brutal death metal from Anadia in the Beira region, active since 1999 and among Portugal's longest-running brutal death metal acts. Over a quarter century they've maintained an unwavering commitment to the genre's most punishing extremes.
Downtime plays melodic death metal and metalcore from Kassel in Hesse, active since 2017 and exploring the intersection of Scandinavian melodeath and modern metalcore. Their name's suggestion of rest and recuperation contrasts sharply with the intensity of their sound.
Downwinder is a death metal and crust band from Volos, Greece, formed in 2021. The band merge the brutality of death metal with the raw punk aggression of crust.
DPK is a death metal band from the Litvínov/Meziboří area of Czech Republic, formed in 2022. They deliver unrelenting death metal with crushing heaviness and dark intensity.
DPrize plays melodic black/death metal from Novosibirsk, formed in 2022 and channeling Siberia's harsh beauty into compositions that balance melody with extreme aggression. Their abbreviated name drives music that treats melodic extremity as both prize and pursuit.
Dr Doom plays death metal and grindcore from Groningen, formed in 2022 and dispensing sonic destruction with the clinical authority their title implies. Their comic-villain name lends a playful menace to otherwise punishing extreme metal.
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