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Vault Of Horrors (2024)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Decaarta is a groove metal band from Chichester, England, active since 2012. They deliver heavy grooves from the West Sussex cathedral city.
Decapitated is a technical death metal band from Krosno, Poland, formed in 2000. One of Poland's most acclaimed extreme metal exports, the band has built an internationally respected career of progressive brutal death metal.
Founded in 2007 in Bütgenbach in the German-speaking community of eastern Belgium, Decent Invasion blends metalcore with nu-metal, hardcore, and thrash into a genre-defying sound that resists easy categorization. After a four-year hiatus the band returned as a trio, delivering gnarly groove-heavy riffs alongside metalcore aggression.
Lafayette's Declare War fuse death metal brutality with groove-laden riffs and hardcore aggression, a combination that hits like a fist to the jaw. Formed in 2024, the Louisiana outfit wears its crossover influences without apology.
Deconstructed is a groove metal and metalcore band from Rosario, Argentina, whose lineup includes vocalist Walter Magnavachi, guitarists Andrés Ludmer and Guillermo Sarasibar, bassist Bruno Perine, and drummer Bruno Rositto. The band cites heavy influences from Pantera, Meshuggah, Sepultura, and Lamb of God, channeling a crushing, riff-driven sound rooted in Rosario's underground heavy music scene.
Decryption hammers out thrash and groove metal from the Sicilian city of Agrigento, fusing old-school thrash aggression with groove metal's syncopated punch. Active since 2014, they bring high-energy metal to one of Sicily's most ancient cities.
Dedpool is a groove/thrash metal band from Hückelhoven, Germany, formed in 2018. They deliver heavy grooves paired with thrash metal's aggressive energy.
Deep Cut plays groove/gothic metal from Porto, active since 2013 and carving deep into the intersection of rhythmic heaviness and dark romanticism. Their wound-referencing name speaks to music that cuts beneath the surface to reach something emotionally raw.
Deep Desolation is a black, doom, groove, and thrash metal band from Lodz, Poland, formed in 2019. The project draws from multiple extreme metal styles in a diverse sonic attack.
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