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Atlanta's Despoiler emerged in 2019 with a death-tinged thrash attack that fits naturally into the city's long tradition of extreme metal extremity. Their riffs carry the taut, angular energy of thrash while the death metal influence darkens the harmonic palette and adds rot to the low frequencies.
Despojos is a death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2014. The independent outfit operates within São Paulo's underground death metal scene, drawing on themes of death, gore, and horror.
Despond have been active in the American black metal underground since 1996, an unusually long tenure for a project whose Bandcamp presence keeps the mission minimal. Three decades of existence give their work a stubborn, weathered authenticity that newer projects cannot fake.
Despondency is a brutal death metal band from the Leer/Wilhelmshaven area of Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing brutal death metal from northern Germany's coastal underground.
Despotic is a death/thrash metal band from Prenzlau, Germany, formed in 2018. They rule through tyrannical death/thrash metal with authoritative force.
Despotism is a brutal death metal band from Dnipro, Ukraine, formed in 2021. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal.
Destillat is a melodic black/death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2018. They distill the essence of melodic extremity through black and death metal.
Destination Dawn is a melodic death/power metal band from Nordhausen, Germany, active since 2009. They merge melodic death metal's intensity with power metal's soaring energy.
A death metal band from Vienna, Austria, whose history traces back to the early 1990s despite the band's official founding in May 2008. They play straightforward death metal rooted in the Vienna underground and are documented on Bandcamp and Austrian metal compilations.
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