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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Devilhorn is a band from Kouvola, Finland, active since 2007, whose sound evolved from black metal into death metal. Their nearly two decades of activity span the extremes of Finnish metal.
Devilish is a black metal band from Germany, active since 2016. They deliver sinister black metal steeped in diabolical themes.
Devilish Art is a black and death metal band from Zhytomyr, Ukraine, formed in 2017. The project delivers dark extreme metal from central Ukraine.
Devilish Impressions is a symphonic black and death metal band from Opole, Poland, formed in 2006. The project weaves orchestral darkness into extreme metal fury from the Upper Silesian scene.
Devilisheim is a black metal band from Campina Grande, Paraíba, Brazil, formed in 2014. The band explores themes of misanthropy, mythology, and war, and performed a live set at the Zonna Rock Festival in Campina Grande in November 2016, which was captured in a live release.
Devilkommando is a black/thrash/speed metal band from Zagreb and Varazdin, Croatia, formed in 2025. The band blast through the intersection of black, thrash, and speed metal with relentless aggression.
Devilpact is a black metal band from Russia, formed in 2001. One of the veteran Russian black metal acts with over two decades of dark extreme metal.
Devilpriest is a black and death metal band from Gliwice, Poland, formed in 2017. The project merges black metal's darkness with death metal's aggression from the Upper Silesian scene.
Devilry plays black/death metal from Helsinki, active since 2011 and practicing the dark arts of extreme metal from Finland's capital. Their witchcraft-evoking name suits compositions that blend black metal's atmospheric malice with death metal's crushing physicality.
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