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Where Fear And Weapons Meet (2021)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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This is Black Stone Cherry's RSD album. The band really likes it. (2025)
10/27 @ Cyprus Avenue, Cork
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Demonic War is a black/death metal band from El Prat de Llobregat, Spain, formed in 2020. They wage extreme metal warfare from the Barcelona metropolitan area.
A death metal band from Innsbruck, Austria, founded in 2015 and rooted in old-school Swedish death metal. Their debut EP 'Blasphemous Thoughts,' released in August 2021, includes tracks such as 'Extinction of Nihil' and 'Vomit on the Grave of Christ,' and the band has supported acts including No Zodiac (USA) and Blood for Betrayal (Germany) in live settings.
Demonik Torture is a blackened death metal project from Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, built around the duo of Grand Magus Proximus on instruments and Magnus Severus Blasphemer on vocals. Their 2022 demo Hellfukk is a raw, stripped-down exercise in black/death brutality with no pretense to polish.
Demonikus is a black/death metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2018. The band deliver intense, dark extreme metal drawing from both black and death metal traditions within the Hellenic scene.
Demonium is a melodic black/death metal band from Trebinje, Bosnia and Herzegovina, operating in Republika Srpska's south. Their Bandcamp catalog, including Hand of Satan and Sapiens Dominabitur Astris, reflects a project that navigates between melody and extremity in the tradition of Scandinavian-influenced Eastern European black metal.
Demonolith plays death metal from Komsomolsk-on-Amur in Russia's Far East, active since 1993 and one of the longest-running death metal acts east of the Urals. Over three decades they've maintained an extreme metal presence in a remote Pacific city built by Stalinist labor.
Demonology is a death/thrash metal band from Huddersfield, England, emerging in 2025. They study demonology through fierce death/thrash from West Yorkshire.
Demonomantic is a black and death metal band from Sweden, formed in 2021. The project merges black metal with death metal.
Demonraised plays black/death metal from Lisbon, active since 2012 and summoning infernal power through the fusion of both genres' most aggressive elements. Their demon-summoning name suits music designed to raise hell through blast beats and tremolo-driven darkness.
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