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Sunset on the Golden Age (2017)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Depopulation is a brutal death metal/deathcore band from Selm, Germany, active since 2013. They combine slam-influenced brutality with deathcore's devastating breakdowns.
Depraved Will plays melodic deathcore from Eindhoven, active since 2020 and operating from the Dutch city that hosts the annual Dynamo metal festival. Their corrupted-willpower name drives compositions that balance melodic hooks with punishing breakdowns.
Depths of Black is a death metal and deathcore band from Chelyabinsk, Russia, formed in 2016. The project delivers punishing extreme metal from the Ural region.
Des Moines, Iowa's Desecrate Ethereal have carved out a niche in technical and progressive death metal since 2017, incorporating deathcore's modern heaviness into their intricate, shifting compositions. Their Iowa origins make them one of the more technically sophisticated acts to emerge from the state's relatively small extreme metal scene.
Corpus Christi's Desecrated Remains have been pushing technical death metal and deathcore to the South Texas coast since 2015, bringing a level of compositional precision and brutality that stands out in a region not typically associated with the technical end of the genre. Their work reflects a serious engagement with extreme metal's most demanding demands.
A brutal death metal and deathcore band from Vienna, Austria, active from 2007 to 2010 before splitting up. Unsigned and independent during their run, they operated in Vienna's underground extreme metal scene at the height of deathcore's European wave.
Polarizing experimental deathcore from Corpus Christi.
Desolation of Eden is a deathcore band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2016. They unleash punishing deathcore breakdowns and extreme vocals from Bavaria's capital.
Desperate Times is a metalcore and deathcore band from Hlinsko, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. They deliver aggressive breakdowns and harsh vocals rooted in the crossover between metalcore and deathcore.
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