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Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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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.
Damnation Defaced is a melodic/progressive death metal band from Celle, Germany, active since 2010, self-described as "Science Fiction Death Metal." Their 2023 album "They Brought Death to the Darkness" marked 15 years of activity, featuring covers of Rammstein, Kreator, and Strapping Young Lad alongside original compositions.
Damnation Gallery storms out of Genoa with a caustic blend of heavy and blackened thrash metal, marrying the galloping riffs of traditional heavy metal with the venom and velocity of black-thrash. Their sound sits at the crossroads of NWOBHM worship and first-wave black metal ferocity.
New Jersey's Damnation Lust conjure black/death metal in the tradition of bestial war metal, combining the nihilistic fury of both genres into something vicious and unrelenting since their 2022 formation. A project born fully formed in extremity.
Los Angeles' Damnation Overthrowne emerged in 2026 at the raw, energetic overlap of thrash and traditional heavy metal, channeling the street-level urgency of the LA metal scene into a sound that honors its predecessors without merely imitating them.
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