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Spitting Fire Live Vol. 2 (2013)
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Chicago's Desolate have been carving out a space in the melodic death metal underground since 2014, balancing hook-driven riffwork with the punishing tempos the genre demands. The city's blue-collar hardness comes through in material that favors impact over ornamentation.
Desolate is a black metal and melodic death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, forging aggressive yet melodically driven compositions since 2014. Their sound bridges the rawness of black metal with the harmonic sophistication of the Scandinavian death metal tradition.
Desolate Crown is a melodic death metal band from Albi, France, formed in 2017. They wear a crown of melodic death from the Tarn region.
Desolate Default is a death metal/metalcore band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2014. They merge death metal's heaviness with metalcore's intensity and dynamics.
Desolate Empyrean is a death and doom metal band from Lodz, Poland, formed in 2022. The project merges death metal's aggression with doom metal's crushing weight.
Desolate Grave is a funeral doom and symphonic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2022. The project crafts devastatingly slow doom with symphonic textures.
Desolation Catalyst is a melodic death metal band from Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, active since 2011. They deliver powerful melodic death metal with emotional intensity.
Desolation of Eden is a deathcore band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2016. They unleash punishing deathcore breakdowns and extreme vocals from Bavaria's capital.
Desparity plays death/doom metal from Rotterdam, formed in 2022 and channeling inequality and division into slowly crushing compositions. Their name's evocation of disparity carries social weight within a genre traditionally focused on personal and existential despair.
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