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Despectus is a symphonic melodic death metal band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed in 2011. The project layers symphonic elements over melodic death metal from eastern Ukraine.
Out of St. Petersburg, Florida since 2015, Desperate Cry fuse the riff-velocity of thrash with death metal's low-end punishment, producing material with the tight, caustic energy of a band that grew up in the Florida death metal shadow and wanted to play faster. Their approach favors aggression and directness over technical showmanship.
Desperate Deed is a death metal band from the university city of Marburg in Hesse, formed in 2023 and delivering urgently aggressive extreme metal. Their name's implication of acts born from desperation carries into music that attacks with the intensity of a last resort.
Desperate Times is a metalcore and deathcore band from Hlinsko, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. They deliver aggressive breakdowns and harsh vocals rooted in the crossover between metalcore and deathcore.
Formed in Aulnois, Hainaut in 1990, Despise were a death metal band from the French-speaking south of Belgium who operated as an independent underground act throughout their existence. The band is now split up and represents one of the earlier death metal projects to emerge from the Wallonian underground scene.
Despise the Catatonia is a German death/thrash/speed metal act formed in 2024 that rails against paralysis — both physical and metaphorical — through a triple-genre assault of breakneck velocity. Their hybrid approach draws on each genre's most aggressive impulses for maximum impact.
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Despised is a death metal band from Paderborn, Germany, formed in 2018. They play aggressive, uncompromising death metal with brutal intensity.
Despised is a death metal and grindcore duo from Mogi Guaçu, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2018, consisting of Alex Roque (guitars, bass, drums) and Rodolfo Carrega (vocals). The band plays brutal, politically driven music and released the album Scorched Earth in 2023 through Kvlt und Kaos Productions.
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