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Featured Album
La Grande Mascarade - EP (2024)
Featured Heavy Metal Album
No More Hollywood Endings (2025)
Featured Artist with an Upcoming Show
The Pursuit of Vikings: Live at Summer Breeze (Main Stage) (2018)
05/09 @ Coca-Cola Roxy, Atlanta
Featured Stoner Metal Album
Gossamer Wings of Illusion (2025)
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Death On/Off is a death metal and grindcore band from Ferrara, Italy, formed in 2012. With releases like 'Disharmonic Mass Destruction' and splits with Grumo, the band delivers raw and provocative extreme metal that fuses death metal, grindcore, and hardcore punk.
Deathbound is a death metal/grindcore band from Tampere, Finland, active since 2008. They deliver relentless extremity from Finland's industrial heartland.
Deathcontrol is a grindcore band from A Coruña, Spain, formed in 2024. They unleash controlled chaos through blistering grindcore from Galicia.
DeathFuckingWound is a black metal/grindcore/crust punk band from Finland, emerging in 2025. Their blunt name matches their savage fusion of extreme subgenres.
Deathmongers is an Amsterdam death metal and grindcore act formed in 2023, peddling sonic destruction from the Dutch capital. Their name's mercantile imagery — dealing in death — fits a city historically defined by commerce, now channeling that energy into extreme metal.
Decapity is a death/thrash metal and grindcore band from Mid-Wales, formed in 2021. They deliver decapitating extremity from the Welsh hills.
Decaying Delights is an industrial metal/grindcore band from Vantaa, Finland, emerging in 2026. They blend industrial harshness with grindcore's frenetic extremity.
Decrabitation is a death metal/grindcore band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2022. They deliver ferocious blasts of death metal and grindcore with relentless intensity.
Dedth plays brutal death metal and grindcore from Moscow, active since 2016 and whose deliberately misspelled name strips even the word "death" of its proper form. Their lo-fi, aggressive approach matches the chaotic energy of their mangled spelling.
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