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Desgraceria is a death metal and grindcore band from Maringá, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2007. The band released the album "Crença Cega," which drew comparisons to early Napalm Death for its balance of chaotic blasting and sludge-driven riffs. They also appeared on the split release "Terrorgrind Sudamericaos" alongside Yukaha, reissued on cassette in 2021.
Brooklyn's Desiccate formed in 2022, adding a fresh voice to New York City's crowded but vital death metal scene with a sound that leans into the suffocating, airless quality their name implies. Even as a newer act, they've tapped into the raw intensity that defines death metal at its most uncompromising.
A brutal death metal and deathcore band from Vienna, Austria, active from 2007 to 2010 before splitting up. Unsigned and independent during their run, they operated in Vienna's underground extreme metal scene at the height of deathcore's European wave.
Desideratum is a melodic doom/death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil. The band recorded the demo "Dismal Untouchable Beauty" and operated within São Paulo's underground extreme metal scene. They have since split up, leaving behind a small body of work catalogued on Metal Archives under the melodic doom/death metal genre.
Designs of Chaos is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from London, England, active since 2013. They design chaotic melodic aggression from the British capital.
Desincarnated is a black/death metal band from Asnières-lès-Dijon, France, formed in 2019. They deliver fleshless extreme metal from Burgundy.
Desinence Mortification is a death metal and grindcore band from Pula, Croatia, active since 1996. With nearly three decades in the Croatian underground, the band are veterans of the Adriatic extreme metal scene.
St. Louis's Desinsertion pair death metal's brutality with grindcore's furious brevity, producing a sound that is relentless and unsparing since their 2019 formation. The Midwest's underrated extreme metal underground has a genuine asset in a band that understand both sides of the death/grind equation.
Out of Española, New Mexico since 2013, Desmadre are a controlled detonation of death metal, grindcore, hardcore, and thrash — a four-genre collision that mirrors the Spanish word for chaos itself. They play fast and mean, with the kind of pit-ready ferocity that small desert towns breed when they have something to say.
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