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Detruncation plays death metal from Deva in Transylvania, formed in 2025 and named after the act of severing limbs. Their surgical-violence name drives compositions of visceral, anatomically themed death metal.
Deuel is a progressive and melodic death metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2012. The band merge the technical intricacy of progressive metal with the heaviness of melodic death metal.
Deus Inversus is a death metal band from Essen, Germany, active since 2010. They explore inverted spiritual themes through technically accomplished death metal.
Deus Vermin is a black/death metal band from Leeds, England, formed in 2017. They channel pestilent divinity through extreme metal from West Yorkshire.
Deuteronomy is a blackened death metal project from Thessaloniki, Greece, built around multi-instrumentalist Leonidas with session vocalists and drummers from international collaborators. Their 2020 album The Last Roman explores the Byzantine Empire's military campaigns under Emperor Justinian I across ten tracks of intense, historically themed extreme metal.
Devakhan is an active melodic black and death metal band from Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil, listed on Encyclopaedia Metallum as an independent act. The band released a demo in 2010 featuring tracks such as "In the Name of Justice" and "Slaughter," placing them within the northeastern Brazilian extreme metal underground.
Devangelic is a technical brutal death metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2014. With four albums through Willowtip Records including 'Xul,' the band has earned recognition as contemporary torchbearers of the genre, drawing comparisons to Nile and Immolation while exploring Sumerian mythology and humanity's inner darkness.
Devast is a death metal and grindcore band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They deliver intense, grinding brutality with relentless blast beats and guttural vocals.
Devast is a brutal/technical death metal band from Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed in 2014. The band self-released the two-track demo "Radical Excruciation Concept" in 2014 before signing to Gore House Productions and releasing "Into Decimated Reality" in 2015. Their sound draws comparisons to Origin, Dying Fetus, and Internal Suffering, built around an apocalyptic thematic concept.
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