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Destroyed in Seconds plays death metal from Caldas da Rainha, active since 2010 and promising total annihilation in the briefest possible timeframe. Their urgently destructive name drives compositions that waste no time reaching maximum intensity.
Destroyers is a Czech death/thrash metal band formed in 2017. They combine the relentless aggression of death metal with the speed and precision of thrash.
Destroyers of All plays progressive death/groove metal from the university city of Coimbra, active since 2013 and living up to their absolutist name through technically accomplished, genre-spanning compositions. Their ambitious approach combines progressive complexity with death metal's weight and groove metal's rhythmic punch.
Chicago's Destroythm have been cooking a hybrid of death, thrash, and groove metal since 2014 — a combination that leans into the punishing rhythmic mechanics at all three subgenres' cores. The groove element gives their material a physical snap that keeps the brutality anchored and danceable.
Destructive Behavior is a death metal band from the Voerde/Dinslaken area in North Rhine-Westphalia, formed in 2020 and living up to their name with uncompromising sonic devastation. Their sound channels the industrial grit of the Ruhr region into relentless, hard-hitting death metal.
Formed in McAllen in 2022, Destructive Cell represent the Rio Grande Valley's new wave of extreme metal, building deathcore material with the suffocating density and rhythmic precision the subgenre demands. The Texas-Mexico border has always produced music shaped by intensity and heat, and this band is no exception.
Destrudo started as a progressive death metal project in Rome before shifting toward the more atmospheric expanses of post-metal. Named after the Freudian concept of the death drive, their music traces an arc from cerebral aggression toward contemplative, cinematic heaviness.
Destrukto is a black and death metal band from Osthammar, Sweden, formed in 2011. The project merges black metal with death metal from the Uppsala county.
Desultor is a technical death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2013. The project delivers technically precise death metal from the Swedish capital.
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