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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Raleigh's Daemonum brings a stark, orthodox black metal vision to North Carolina's underground, formed in 2022 with the apparent goal of making something cold and uncompromising in an unlikely setting. The contrast between the Research Triangle's warm climate and the music's icy intent is part of the appeal.
Arlington, Texas's Daemora fuses doom metal's crushing, slow-burning weight with death metal's sepulchral menace, arriving at something that feels genuinely heavy rather than merely loud. Since 2017 they've carved a niche in the Metroplex's underground built on patience and density.
San Diego's Daemos has been running a meat-and-potatoes thrash operation since 2010, with a commitment to the genre's foundational values — fast riffs, relentless drumming, and no apologies. Southern California thrash has its own personality, and Daemos fits right in.
Daemusinem emerged from Turin playing melodic black/death metal before steering their sound toward a purer death metal approach. Their evolution traces a path from tremolo-picked melodicism and atmospheric sweep into heavier, more brutal territory.
Daeth Daemon is a death metal band from Salzburg, active since 2019 across Austria and Germany. Their two releases, the EP The Skeleton Spectre (2020) and the full-length Span of Æons (2022), deliver skull-crunching old-school death metal with a doomy undercurrent and track titles like "Extermination Ghost" that underscore the band's fixation on darkness and obliteration.
Philadelphia's Daeva is among the more exciting black/thrash acts to emerge from the East Coast underground, building on the ancient rites of Aura Noir and Nifelheim with their own fierce, forward-moving attack. Since 2011 they've become a reference point for the style's modern practitioners.
Daevar is a stoner/doom metal band from Cologne, Germany, formed in 2023. Their releases including "Sub Rosa" and "Amber Eyes" deliver thick, fuzz-laden riffs and hypnotic grooves.
Daevas is a black/thrash metal band from the Dortmund/Wuppertal/Essen area of Germany, formed in 2024. They channel the ferocity of black metal through the speed and precision of thrash.
Daevidius plays progressive metal and rock from Bromolla in Skane, active since 2016. Their Latinized personal-name format signals a solo vision of technically accomplished, cerebral compositions from southern Sweden.
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