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Despizer is a black and thrash metal band from Pabianice, Poland, formed in 2013. The project fuses black metal's rawness with thrash metal's velocity.
Atlanta's Despoiler emerged in 2019 with a death-tinged thrash attack that fits naturally into the city's long tradition of extreme metal extremity. Their riffs carry the taut, angular energy of thrash while the death metal influence darkens the harmonic palette and adds rot to the low frequencies.
Despot is a thrash metal and crossover band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2021. The band fuse the speed of thrash metal with the punk energy of crossover.
Despotic is a death/thrash metal band from Prenzlau, Germany, formed in 2018. They rule through tyrannical death/thrash metal with authoritative force.
Dessacrator plays thrash/speed metal from the university city of Leiden, active since 2011 and desecrating convention through high-velocity riffing. Their misspelled-desecrator name adds a deliberately crude edge to their classic thrash attack.
Destabilizer is a thrash metal band from Horsens in east-central Jutland, active since 2021 and living up to their name with compositions designed to destabilize through relentless aggression. Their sound channels the raw, untamed energy of classic thrash through a Danish lens.
Destined to Burn is a thrash metal and hardcore act from Belgium's Limburg province, fusing the speed and riff intensity of thrash with hardcore's confrontational energy. Active since 2015, they deliver high-octane music built for both circle pits and stage dives.
Destinity is a band from Lyon, France, active since 2002, whose sound evolved from black metal through symphonic black/death metal to melodic thrash/death metal. Their two-decade journey spans multiple extreme metal subgenres.
Minneapolis thrash act Destitute have been honing their craft since 2013, operating in the aggressive, no-nonsense tradition of Midwestern thrash that prizes velocity and groove in equal measure. Their name matches the aesthetic: stripped of excess, down to the bone.
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