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From the high desert edge of Klamath Falls, Oregon, Descendant craft psychedelic doom metal that moves like tectonic plates — slow, immense, and hypnotic. Since 2013, they've channeled the vast, remote landscape of southern Oregon into spacious, hallucinatory riffs that blur the line between crushing weight and meditative trance.
Descendant is a heavy metal band from Vaxjo, Sweden, formed in 2013. The project delivers classic heavy metal from the Smaland region.
Descendant of Odin is a melodic death metal band from Bedford, England, formed in 2020. They channel Norse mythology through melodic death metal.
Descended Faith is a power/heavy metal band from Salisbury, England, active since 2013. They deliver faithful power metal from the Wiltshire plains.
Descendents formed in Manhattan Beach, California in 1977 and became one of the most important bridges between first-wave punk, melodic hardcore, and the later shape of pop punk. Their early identity crystallized when Milo Aukerman joined, giving the band a voice that sounded nerdy, frantic, vulnerable, and defiant at once. Milo Goes to College is foundational because it pairs breakneck rhythm-section force with songs about food, rejection, suburban frustration, and emotional immaturity that somehow feel more honest than many grander punk statements. Bill Stevenson's drumming and songwriting discipline helped make the songs compact without making them simple, while Tony Lombardo, Frank Navetta, Karl Alvarez, Stephen Egerton, and later lineups pushed the band through decades of starts, pauses, and returns. I Don't Want to Grow Up, Enjoy!, Everything Sucks, Cool to Be You, Hypercaffium Spazzinate, and 9th & Walnut each connect a different era to the same core. Descendents are not merely a punk influence; they are part of the DNA of melodic heavy music culture. Their songs made speed, insecurity, humor, and hooks permanently compatible.
Descender is a thrash metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2010. The band deliver aggressive thrash metal rooted in the traditions of the genre.
Descending is a melodic death, groove metal, and metalcore band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2019. The band blend melodic death metal hooks with groove-heavy riffing and metalcore breakdowns.
Descending Chaos is a groove metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2014. The project delivers heavy groove metal from the west coast.
Descending Void is a death and doom metal band from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, formed in 2012. The project merges death metal with doom metal's weight from the Volga region.
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