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Desiderata is a black metal band from Warsaw, Poland, formed in 2007. The project channels atmospheric black metal from the Polish capital.
Desideratum is a melodic doom/death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil. The band recorded the demo "Dismal Untouchable Beauty" and operated within São Paulo's underground extreme metal scene. They have since split up, leaving behind a small body of work catalogued on Metal Archives under the melodic doom/death metal genre.
Desideria is a heavy metal band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2020 and channeling the power and intensity of traditional heavy metal through modern compositions. Their sound builds on the genre's foundational riffwork with a contemporary Czech sensibility.
Woodstock, Connecticut's Desiderium have been working the thrash and groove metal intersection since 2011, delivering driving, kinetic riffwork that draws from both the technical precision of thrash and the body-moving punch of groove. The rural Connecticut setting gives their heaviness a certain unglamorous directness.
Cary, North Carolina's Desiderium have been one of the more thoughtful voices in American post-black metal since 2011, blending the genre's atmospheric, introspective elements with genuine emotional depth. Their music moves beyond black metal's more aggressive conventions into territory that is melancholic, expansive, and quietly devastating.
Polarizing experimental deathcore from Corpus Christi.
Designs of Chaos is a melodic death metal and metalcore band from London, England, active since 2013. They design chaotic melodic aggression from the British capital.
Desincarnated is a black/death metal band from Asnières-lès-Dijon, France, formed in 2019. They deliver fleshless extreme metal from Burgundy.
Desinence Mortification is a death metal and grindcore band from Pula, Croatia, active since 1996. With nearly three decades in the Croatian underground, the band are veterans of the Adriatic extreme metal scene.
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