death’s dynamic shroud (alternatively death’s dynamic shroud.wmv) is a collaborative vaporwave project between James Webster (also known as HCMJ), Tech Honors and Keith Rankin (known to create music as Giant Claw and operate Orange Milk Records). To achieve their signature sound, death’s dynamic shroud typically samples video game soundtracks (most common on projects produced by Webster) and 21st century pop songs (most common on Tech Honors' endeavours) in a mixtape-style format, oftentimes with special distortions and modifications made as a result of being bounced off analog recordings.

In 2015, during the creation of their most popular and critically aclaimed album, I’ll Try Living Like This, Keith Rankin’s addition to the group brought a much more high-fidelity, experimental sound (including sampling of anime soundtracks and k-pop) to the music, a shift that has helped the group form their distinct sound and visual aesthetic they personally refer to as “NUWRLD”. Around the time of Heavy Black Heart, the group decided to use a variation of the death’s dynamic shroud name without the file extension, now used to denote the newer, less “classical” albums from the previous mixtapes.

In late 2020, the group launched the “NUWRLD Mixtape Club”, a subscription-exclusive series of classical-style albums released exclusively to subscribers monthly.