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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Delaware is a heavy/speed metal band from El Masnou, Spain, formed in 2016. They deliver high-energy speed and heavy metal from the Catalan coast.
Delchia is a Vilnius-based experimental drone/doom metal project active since 2012, sculpting massive, sustained tones into slowly evolving compositions that test the boundaries of heaviness and patience alike. Their music demands total immersion, rewarding listeners who surrender to its glacial pace.
Mount Airy, Maryland's Delenda — active since 2012 — build their symphonic deathcore around layers of orchestral grandeur draped over bone-crushing breakdowns and death metal brutality. The name invokes destruction as imperative, and the music follows through with cinematic sweep and extreme heaviness occupying the same space.
Delenda Arcana was a pagan/folk black metal band from Jundiaí, São Paulo, Brazil, active from 2008 until splitting up. Drawing on themes of paganism, mythology, war, and ancient legends, the band blended atmospheric black metal with folk elements, releasing the album "Last Breath of a Dying Enemy" in 2008.
Delenda Est is a black metal band from Poland, formed in 2022. Named after the Latin phrase 'must be destroyed,' the project channels uncompromising black metal.
Delenda Est Carthago is a black metal band from Normandy, France, formed in 2020. Named after Cato's famous declaration, they deliver destructive black metal.
Delete the Mass is a grindcore and death metal act from Athens, Greece, formed in 2009. Their releases include a 2012 demo and the album Maza, channeling the ferocity of grindcore blended with death metal heaviness.
Deleterious plays technical black/death metal from Utrecht, formed in 2021 and delivering the harmful, destructive impact their name promises through precision-engineered extreme metal. Their technical approach adds surgical accuracy to the raw aggression of their dual-genre foundation.
Deletion is a black and death metal band from Molndal and Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2016. The project merges black metal with death metal from the west coast.
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