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Desaster Area is a heavy/speed metal band with punk influences from Dortmund, Germany, active since 2014. They deliver high-energy speed metal spiked with punk attitude.
Desbaste is a thrash metal band from Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina, featuring Adrian Llano on vocals, Blas Brion and Martin Alvarez on guitars, Elio Mateu on bass, and Ariel Cabrera on drums. The band released their debut "Caos" EP on February 22, 2022, which includes the track "Sangre y Muerte."
Descamisados is a death/thrash metal band from Amiens, France, formed in 2021. They deliver fierce death/thrash from Picardy.
Descanse em Paz (Portuguese for "Rest in Peace") was a thrash metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, active for a brief period before splitting up. The band drew lyrical themes from anti-fascism, social critique, and dystopia, working as an independent, unsigned act within the underground thrash scene.
Descarado is a doom and stoner metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project delivers heavy doom and stoner riffs from the west coast.
Descarnado is a technical death metal and deathcore band from Isidro Casanova, Buenos Aires, featuring Ivan Suarez (vocals/guitar), Nicolas Alonso (guitar), Brian Di Franco (bass), and Ulises Ochova (drums). The band released the "Atemporal" EP in 2017 and the full-length "Ente" in 2019, before delivering the seven-track album "Enajenación" in 2022, which was recorded across NHS Studio and DMB Studio.
Descend is a melodic thrash and death metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2007. The band combine the precision of thrash metal with melodic death metal sensibility in their Greek extreme metal output.
Descend into Despair plays funeral doom metal from Radauti in Bukovina, active since 2010 and one of Romania's premier funeral doom acts. Their glacially paced compositions take the listener on an inexorable downward journey into the most crushing, sorrowful corner of the doom metal spectrum.
Boston's Descend upon the Sane have been forging their brand of thrash and heavy metal since 2013, drawing from the rich New England metal tradition while keeping the riffs sharp and the tempos aggressive. They occupy that classic intersection where old-school heavy metal songwriting meets the speed and intensity of thrash.
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