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St. Augustine's Demasguts hit the ground running in 2024, deploying a three-way collision of thrash, death metal, and hardcore that wastes no time on pleasantries. Their Florida roots come through in the swampy aggression — old-school meat-and-bones songwriting from a young band that clearly grew up on the classics.
Gaithersburg, Maryland's Demassify have been stacking fuzz-laden riffs since 2020, navigating the thick overlap between stoner metal, doom, and classic heavy metal. Their sound calls to mind long desert highways and low-slung power chords — deliberate, heavy, and deeply rooted in the analog warmth of hard rock tradition.
Out of Franklin, Kentucky, Demeanor have been grinding away since 2013 at a particularly abrasive intersection of grindcore, mathcore, and sludge metal. The rhythmic unpredictability of their mathcore side gives the songs a destabilizing quality that makes the sludge moments hit that much harder.
Demencia is a thrash metal band from Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile, tracing its roots to the mid-1990s hardcore act Kaníbal Kañero before evolving toward a sound shaped by Kreator, Destruction, Dark Angel, and Obituary. The band released several demos culminating in the full-length MetalDistortion in 2008 on Agresor Records, after which they entered an extended hiatus.
Demencia is a thrash metal band from Iquique, Tarapacá, Chile, tracing its roots to the mid-1990s hardcore act Kaníbal Kañero before evolving toward a sound shaped by Kreator, Destruction, Dark Angel, and Obituary. The band released several demos culminating in the full-length MetalDistortion in 2008 on Agresor Records, after which they entered an extended hiatus.
Demencia Extrema is an extreme metal band from Ituzaingó in the western greater Buenos Aires area, drawing on metalcore, death metal, and 1990s groove metal influences. The band released the EP Mundo Ruin in August 2015, a five-song record recorded and mixed by FedeSaurio Records in Castelar-Morón, Buenos Aires, with composer Matias Chao as a key creative force.
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.
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