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Desum is a black/death metal band from Hungary, formed in 2018. The band channel extreme metal aggression at the intersection of black and death metal.
Desynchronized is a death metal band from Kaliningrad, Russia, formed in 2023. The project delivers aggressive death metal from Russia's Baltic exclave.
Pennsylvania's Deteriorate trace a lineage from early death metal into blackened death metal territory — a natural evolution for a band whose Metal Archives entry notes the genre shift explicitly across their career. The Penndel-area underground has always rewarded bands willing to push deeper into the dark, and Deteriorate have obliged.
Formed in Bornem, Antwerp in 2007, Detest play black and death metal with a dark conceptual focus on the human mind, evidenced on their album We Will Get What We Deserve. The band operates as an unsigned independent act and remains active in the Belgian extreme metal underground.
Detestor plays death metal from Ourense in Galicia, active since 2019 and delivering punishing extreme metal from Spain's rainy, Celtic-influenced northwest. Their Latin-rooted name — to detest — channels raw hatred into focused sonic aggression.
Pearblossom, California's Deth Bed emerged in 2020 playing blackened death metal — a style that fuses black metal's atmospheric menace with death metal's low-end brutality into something uglier and more volatile than either parent genre. The high desert location north of Los Angeles adds an isolation and grit their music wears naturally.
Dethlirium is a death/thrash metal band from Bilbao, Spain, formed in 2016. They unleash frenetic death/thrash from the Basque capital.
Richmond, Virginia's Dethorned have been working the death/thrash underground since 2014, channeling the city's strong extreme metal tradition into riff-driven material that balances death metal's darkness with thrash's angular velocity. Richmond has always bred bands that play with purpose, and Dethorned fits that mold.
Dethred is a death/thrash metal band from Mannheim, Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver vicious death/thrash from the Rhine-Neckar region.
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