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The Powerless Rise (2010)
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Damnable is a death metal band from Scheveningen in the Netherlands, active since 2011 and operating in the shadow of the Dutch death metal legacy established by bands like Pestilence and Asphyx. Their coastal origins lend a cold, North Sea character to death metal that draws from the nation's storied extreme metal heritage.
Newnan, Georgia's Damnage have been delivering no-nonsense thrash metal since 2013, representing the South's thriving but underappreciated metal underground. Their music is built on the genre's foundational pillars: speed, aggression, and riffs that demand movement.
Damnas is a thrash metal band from London, England, active since 2008. They play fierce, riff-driven thrash from the British capital.
Damnat plays death metal from Timisoara in western Romania, active since 2021 and delivering punishing extreme metal from one of the Banat region's cultural capitals. Their Latin-rooted name — meaning "condemned" — channels judicial finality into relentless sonic aggression.
Damnatio is a heavy/thrash/alternative metal band from Baix Llobregat, Spain, formed in 2023. They blend thrash aggression with alternative metal's accessibility.
Damnatio Aeterna is a depressive black metal project born in 2015 in Bergamo, exploring themes of human fragility and existential despair across EPs like Humana Fragilitas and Pulvis et Umbra. The latter release examines tragedy as an artistic and existential concept, channeling philosophical anguish into bleak, atmospheric compositions.
Salem, Oregon's Damnatio Memoriae take their name from the Roman practice of erasing condemned figures from history, and they pursue black metal and ambient textures with a similarly uncompromising finality. Formed in 2015, their work balances cold atmospheric passages against raw black metal hostility.
St. Louis' Damnation Army have been mobilizing a war on comfortable metal since 2004, merging thrash and groove metal's rhythmic punch with the blunt force of hardcore punk. Two decades in, they remain one of the Midwest's most combative and dependable underground acts.
Damnation City is a speed/thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, signed to Kill Again Records. Drawing influence from the old German thrash school as well as bands like Slayer, Dark Angel, and Razor, the band released the album "Dead and Buried" in 2022, a six-track record covering themes of death, anti-religion, and horror.
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