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Demencia Mortalis is a gothic metal band from Roudnice nad Labem in the Czech Republic, active since 2008 and blending dark romanticism with heavy, atmospheric compositions. Their Latin-tinged name — suggesting fatal dementia — frames their music as a descent into beautiful madness.
Demency is a heavy metal band from France, formed in 2019. They deliver demented heavy metal with raw energy.
Demenseed is a progressive death metal band from Grenoble, France, active since 2010. They plant seeds of progressive death metal from the French Alps.
Dement is a melodic death metal band from Bursa, Turkey, formed in 2023. The project delivers emotionally charged melodic death metal.
Demental is a thrash metal band from Brighton, England, active since 2013. They deliver demented thrash from the Sussex coast.
Demente is a thrash metal band from La Linea de la Concepcion on the southern tip of Spain, formed in 2023 and delivering riff-heavy aggression from the shadow of Gibraltar. Their Spanish name — meaning "demented" — captures the unhinged energy of their thrash attack.
Sacramento's Dementia started out in the stoner and heavy metal tradition before pivoting toward nu-metal as their sound evolved over the years. Formed in 2013, they represent the California underground's tendency to absorb and recombine influences across metal's many stylistic eras.
Walnut, California's Dementia Fight Club are a brand-new grindcore and goregrind outfit that arrived in 2023 with no apparent interest in subtlety. Short, brutal, and intentionally grotesque, they belong to the SoCal underground tradition of bands that treat extremity as the point, not the means.
Dementiae is a black metal band from Santiago, Chile, whose members perform under the names Satanya, Draco, and Demonamorthus. Their debut demo Between Dementia and Death, released through Pagan Forest Records and Black Crusade Productions in a limited edition of 100 CD copies, draws on the atmospheric and depressive currents of early Burzum alongside elements of doom metal.
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