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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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New York's Demonic Altar arrived in 2024 wielding the classic black/thrash arsenal — bestial riffing, rabid tempos, and a vicious contempt for polish. In the tradition of the genre's most stripped-down practitioners, they favor speed, spite, and malice over technical elaboration.
Demonic Compulsion is a black metal and grindcore band from Berlin, Germany, formed in 2017. They fuse black metal's cold malevolence with grindcore's frenzied blasting.
Demonic Cult is a black and speed metal duo from Rhodes, Greece, formed in 2015 by guitarist-bassist Stavros and vocalist-drummer Sartor Odium. Their 2015 demo Tales from the Cult features two tracks of raw, stripped-down black thrash from the Greek island underground.
Demonic Interium is a black/death metal band from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico. The project released its debut full-length, The Orden of Chaos, in 2018 on an independent basis. The band incorporates elements of black metal and death metal with prehispanic themes as a point of departure.
Demonic Laughter is a black metal band from Lucera, in the Foggia province of Puglia, Italy, formed in 2007. One of the longer-running black metal acts in southern Italy, the project delivers raw and unholy black metal from the Apulian underground.
Demonic Obedience is a death/black metal band originally from Greece, now based in Edinburgh, Scotland, active since 2014. They channel Hellenic darkness through Edinburgh's cold streets.
Demonic Slaughter is a black metal band from Wroclaw, Bielsko-Biala, and Lublin, Poland, formed in 2007. The project delivers dark and ritualistic black metal from across Poland.
Demonic Temple is a black metal band from Bogatynia, Poland, formed in 2018. The project channels dark and occult black metal from the far southwestern corner of Poland.
Demonic War is a black/death metal band from El Prat de Llobregat, Spain, formed in 2020. They wage extreme metal warfare from the Barcelona metropolitan area.
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