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Desahuciado is a black metal band from Quito, Ecuador, formed in 2020. Their sound dwells in themes of absence, nostalgia, and hopelessness, channeled through atmospheric black metal. They released their debut EP, Ecos de Melancresía, in 2024, followed by a split in 2025.
Desalmatvs is a black metal band from Palmira, Valle del Cauca, Colombia, active since 2014 with lyrical themes centered on holocaust, black magic, occultism, and rituals. Signed to Tribulación Productions, the band released their debut full-length Manifestvm in 2019 and followed it with Khaos Aeternvm - Preposterior al ultradimensional in 2022. They have appeared on several compilations including El metal que no conoces está en Colombia Vol. 1 and Bringers of the Black Death - Volume 3.
Kansas City's Descension have been weaving together gothic, black, and death metal since 2012, creating a dense, atmospheric sound that draws equally from melodic darkness and aggressive extremity. The combination gives their music a brooding cinematic quality uncommon in the Missouri underground.
Descensvs is a depressive black metal band from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain, formed in 2020. They descend into despair through raw depressive black metal from the Canary Islands.
Descent to Destruction is a black and death metal band from Malmo, Sweden, formed in 2025. The project merges black metal with death metal from southern Sweden.
Descompasso is a Brazilian black metal project that blends elements of punk with raw black metal. Their release "MMXVIII," uploaded to Bandcamp in 2021 through Terror Noturno, is an 8-track album that showcases a stripped-down, underground aesthetic characteristic of the Brazilian black metal underground.
Descuartizador is a black metal band from Guatemala City, formed in 2014 and signed to Culebra Anticorporation Records. The band explores themes of death, mutilation, and blasphemy, releasing their debut EP Imágenes siniestras in 2014 followed by the EP Nazareno maldito in 2021. Their 2017 demo Visiones de Muerte introduced their raw, uncompromising approach to the genre.
Emerging from San Francisco in 2021, Desdenova work in the space between black metal aggression and ambient atmospherics, crafting music that is as much about texture and void as it is about blast beats and tremolo picking. Their Bay Area origins inform a cerebral, introspective approach to an often primal genre.
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