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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Derision is a thrash/groove metal band from the Bolton/Wigan area of England, formed in 2020. They deliver derisive thrash and groove from Greater Manchester.
Descending is a melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. The band blend melodic death metal hooks with groove-heavy riffing and metalcore breakdowns.
Descending Chaos is a groove metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project delivers heavy groove metal from the west coast.
Descent Ark is a southern/groove metal and metalcore band from the Barcelona/Canet de Mar area of Spain, active since 2012. They merge southern groove with metalcore intensity from the Catalan coast.
Louisville, Kentucky's Descention have developed a distinctive hybrid since 2010, layering death metal aggression over the churning, down-tuned foundation of groove and sludge metal. The combination draws on Louisville's well-established sludge traditions while pushing into heavier, more abrasive territory.
An Austrian groove/thrash metal band whose full-length album 'Down' features nine tracks of heavy, riff-centric metal. The band operates independently and has maintained a presence in Austrian metal databases as a compact, unsigned act.
Deserted Fear is a death metal band from Eisenberg, Germany, formed in 2025, whose sound evolved from pure death metal toward melodic death and groove metal. They bring a modern edge to their East German death metal foundations.
Deshody plays progressive thrash/groove metal from Sora in the Frosinone province, fusing thrash's velocity with groove metal's rhythmic weight and progressive metal's structural ambition. Their tri-genre approach creates compositions that are at once headbangable and intellectually engaging.
Woodstock, Connecticut's Desiderium have been working the thrash and groove metal intersection since 2011, delivering driving, kinetic riffwork that draws from both the technical precision of thrash and the body-moving punch of groove. The rural Connecticut setting gives their heaviness a certain unglamorous directness.
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