Dead Goat plays black metal from Sandnes near Stavanger, active since 2014 and channeling the sacrificial imagery of their name into raw, atmospheric compositions. Their deliberately crude name captures the anti-establishment spirit that has always fueled Norwegian black metal.

Dead Hand Caress is a death metal/grindcore band from Mieres, Spain, formed in 2015. They deliver ferocious extremity from the mining heartland of Asturias.

Dead Head is a death and thrash metal band from Kampen and Zwolle, Netherlands, formed in 2017. The project channels aggressive death/thrash metal from the Overijssel province.

Dead Head Down is a death/thrash metal band from Münster, Germany, active since 2012. They fuse the heaviness of death metal with thrash's relentless speed and precision.

Dead Horizon is a death metal band from Bielefeld, Germany, formed in 2024. They bring fresh brutality to the German death metal scene with uncompromising heaviness.

Dead Ideas plays thrash metal from Belgrade, active since 2021 and resurrecting aggressive riffing from the graveyard of exhausted concepts. Their name's nihilistic implication — that ideas themselves can die — drives compositions fueled by creative urgency.

Dead in Montana is a sludge metal/hardcore band from Mataró, Spain, active since 2012. They fuse sludge metal's crushing weight with hardcore's raw intensity from the Catalan coast.

Dead in the Water is a band from Hämeenlinna, Finland, active since 2013, whose sound evolved from hardcore into melodic doom/death metal. Their transformation reflects a deepening embrace of heavy, melancholic metal.

Dead Joker plays death metal from Kragujevac, one of Serbia's oldest death metal acts with roots stretching back to 1994. Over three decades they've maintained a commitment to the genre from the industrial heartland of central Serbia.