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Degredo plays black metal from Portugal, active since 2018 and whose Portuguese name — meaning "exile" or "banishment" — captures the isolation and alienation at the heart of their atmospheric compositions. Their thematic focus on exile gives their black metal a distinctly melancholic, wandering character.
Portland's Degree Absolute have been cultivating technical progressive metal since 2000, making them one of the longer-tenured acts in a city whose underground favors ambitious, genre-defying projects. Over a quarter-century of activity, they've built a sound that rewards close listening — complex time signatures, intricate arrangements, and the compositional patience that only comes with experience.
Degrees of Truth is a female-fronted progressive symphonic metal band from Varese, Italy, formed in 2016. With four albums through Scarlet Records including 'A L C H E M I S T S,' the band crafts ambitious progressive metal enriched with symphonic grandeur.
Degress is a black and thrash metal band from Postojna, Slovenia, formed in 2018. The project fuses black metal with thrash velocity from the Karst region.
Degutas is a psychedelic black metal project from Vilnius formed in 2023, blurring the boundaries between black metal's tremolo-driven intensity and psychedelia's swirling, mind-altering textures. Their Lithuanian name adds a local dimension to a sound that transcends geographic boundaries.
Degüll is a black metal trio from Santiago, Chile whose music is deeply rooted in Chilean mythology and occultism. Their 2019 album 'Traiguén' draws its track titles — including 'Trauco,' 'Ivunche,' and 'Cueva de Quicaví' — directly from Chilote folklore, and incorporates traditional instruments such as the trompe and bombo legüero alongside conventional black metal instrumentation. The album was recorded by Pedro Millalen at El Patio Producciones and mastered by Álvaro Tapia at Jitaku Records.
Dehead is a Rigan thrash metal act active since 2015, delivering aggressive, neck-snapping riffage to Latvia's metal community. Their decapitation-evoking name matches the surgical precision and violent energy of their thrash attack.
Deheubarth is a black/doom metal band from Wales, formed in 2021. Named after the medieval Welsh kingdom, they deliver Welsh-rooted black doom metal.
Vancouver, Washington's Dehextria formed in 2025, channeling the cold desolation of depressive black metal from the rainy, grey Pacific Northwest — a landscape that practically writes the subgenre for you. Their brand of DSBM leans into isolation and atmosphere, embracing the raw, meditative anguish at the heart of the form.
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