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Grants Pass, Oregon's Desecrator fuse thrash metal's velocity with black metal's icy, malevolent atmosphere, a combination that has defined their sound since 2011. Southern Oregon's remote, forested terrain feels embedded in the darkness of their black/thrash hybrid.
Cincinnati's Desensitized arrived in 2020 with a death/thrash hybrid that channels the ferocity of both traditions without splitting the difference — the thrash is aggressive and fast, the death metal influence dark and heavy. The Queen City has a long metal heritage, and Desensitized keep it in violent good health.
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.
Desert Near the End is a power/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2014, featuring vocalist Alexandros Papandreou, guitarists Spyros Vasilakis and Jason Ioakeim, bassist Akis Prasinikas, and drummer Stelios Pepinidis. Their fifth album Tides of Time (2024), recorded at Incorporated M. Studios, continues their exploration of epic themes spanning fallen cities, heroes, and forgotten tales.
A Brussels-based death and thrash metal band active from 2009 to 2021, Deserter released their debut full-length Coils of the Lesser Serpent on Vile Records, a record notable for incorporating oriental and classical music influences alongside their driving thrash-death framework. The band's drummer Sander Vogt joined in 2012 and solidified the lineup that recorded their most developed material.
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.
Out of Española, New Mexico since 2013, Desmadre are a controlled detonation of death metal, grindcore, hardcore, and thrash — a four-genre collision that mirrors the Spanish word for chaos itself. They play fast and mean, with the kind of pit-ready ferocity that small desert towns breed when they have something to say.
Desolate Horizon is a thrash metal band from Preston, England, active since 2014. They deliver horizon-reaching thrash from Lancashire.
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