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Destractive is a death/thrash/black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2013. They deliver a three-pronged extreme metal assault.
Destrage is a Milanese band that began as a thrash metal/metalcore act before evolving into one of Italy's most inventive progressive metalcore outfits. Their later work combines dizzying technical proficiency with an anything-goes compositional philosophy, incorporating jazz, funk, and electronic elements into their chaotic metalcore framework.
Destrega is a thrash/heavy metal band from Nairn, Scotland, active since 2014. They deliver fierce thrash and heavy metal from the Scottish Highlands.
Destroy All Gondolas is a Venetian act whose tongue-in-cheek name perfectly captures their gleefully irreverent fusion of punk, black metal, and surf rock, which later shifted toward thrash, heavy metal, and punk. Few bands embody their hometown's identity as aggressively or humorously as this canal-city crew.
Destroyers is a Czech death/thrash metal band formed in 2017. They combine the relentless aggression of death metal with the speed and precision of thrash.
Chicago's Destroythm have been cooking a hybrid of death, thrash, and groove metal since 2014 — a combination that leans into the punishing rhythmic mechanics at all three subgenres' cores. The groove element gives their material a physical snap that keeps the brutality anchored and danceable.
Sandy, Utah's Destructinator formed in 2019 playing power/speed/thrash metal, the trifecta of velocity and epic ambition that defined the 1980s metal underground. Their music favors the melodic hook and the full-speed riff, channeling the bombast of bands that made the genre feel genuinely larger than life.
Destructive is a thrash metal band from Istanbul and Kocaeli, Turkey, formed in 2021. The project delivers aggressive thrash metal from the Marmara region.
Portland's Destructive Impulse have been pushing crossover thrash through the Pacific Northwest underground since 2021, merging hardcore's brevity and directness with thrash's technical riffing and speed. The city's DIY ethos runs through their no-nonsense approach to a genre that was always about stripping down and going fast.
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