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Proof (2024)
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Death Atlas (2019)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Hands of Eternity (2024)
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Muskegon, Michigan's Damascus have carved out a decade-plus career in melodic heavy metal, balancing accessible hooks with enough muscle to satisfy the hard rock and metal overlap. Their sound favors melody and clean production within a traditional heavy metal framework.
Los Angeles' Damascus grind out death/thrash metal with a West Coast ferocity that draws on both technical death metal precision and thrash's instinctive directness. Formed in 2011, they represent the harder-edged side of the LA underground.
Raleigh's Damascus Steel wield the genre's most literal name with conviction, delivering high-octane power metal forged for arenas and festival stages. Formed in 2022, they bring soaring vocals, galloping rhythms, and the kind of anthemic songwriting that defines the style.
Uhrichsville, Ohio's Damascus Steel bring a blue-collar midwestern grit to the traditionally European sound of power metal. Formed in 2022, their take on the genre favors directness and power over baroque excess.
Out of the suburban Bay Area city of Alamo, California, Damascus Steel pursue bright-tempered power metal with polished ambition since their 2022 formation. A West Coast voice in a genre historically dominated by European acts.
Damask plays a volatile mix of speed, heavy, and black metal from Volgodonsk in Rostov Oblast, active since 2019. Their city — built to house workers for a nuclear power plant — lends industrial-age intensity to their triple-genre attack.
Damator is a thrash metal band from Zlin, Czech Republic, active since 2016 and delivering high-speed riffing rooted in the classic thrash metal tradition. Their sound channels the relentless energy and aggressive attack that define the genre's most visceral qualities.
Named for the Haitian Vodou serpent deity, Van Nuys' Damballa traffic in black metal infused with occult imagery and ritualistic atmosphere. Since forming in 2019 in the shadow of Los Angeles, they've channeled underground menace into a sound that feels genuinely cursed.
Damek is a doom/groove metal band from Cardiff, Wales, formed in 2023. They deliver crushing Welsh doom and groove.
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