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"Mirror" Mixtape (2022)
Featured Melodic Death Metal Album
Everything's Wrong (2018)
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Fire and Water (Riffissippi Studio Jam Sessions Vol. 1) (2025)
05/08 @ Underground Arts, Philadelphia
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Damnation Plan is a progressive/melodic groove metal band from Espoo, Finland, active since 2013. They push groove metal into progressive territory with melodic sophistication.
Damnation Prayer is a black metal band from Helsinki, Finland, formed in 2022. They deliver dark, blasphemous black metal from the Finnish capital.
Chicago's Damnation Winds have been conjuring frigid black metal since 2012, channeling the howling severity of the Midwest into corrosive, tremolo-driven assaults. Their sound evokes desolation with the relentless intensity of a blizzard that refuses to break.
Formed in Delaware in 2020, Damnations Domain weaponizes the abrasive collision of death metal and grindcore, packaging maximum brutality into short, punishing blasts. No atmosphere, no mercy — just feral sonic destruction.
One of New Jersey's longest-standing melodic death metal acts, Garfield's Damnatory have been honing their craft since 1991, weaving hook-laden guitar work through a foundation of old-school death metal ferocity. Decades of persistence show in the maturity and grit of their approach.
New York's Damnatum traffic in cold, uncompromising black metal that prizes atmosphere as much as aggression. Active since 2012, the project channels the underground's most unrelenting traditions into a raw and unyielding output.
Damnatus is a depressive black metal project from Alessandria in northern Italy, described simply as channeling "the pain of living." Albums like Quando nessuno ti aspetta nel mondo and Io odio la vita are sung in Italian and deliver raw, emotionally harrowing black metal steeped in nihilism and isolation.
Damnatör is a black/thrash metal band from Helsinki, Finland, active since 2014. They deliver blistering black/thrash from the Finnish capital.
Out of North Lewisburg, Ohio, Damnbuilding merges the chug-heavy punishment of deathcore with old-school death metal's murk, building a sound that is as claustrophobic as it is crushing. Since 2014, the band has been leveling expectations with brute-force heaviness.
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