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Despojos is a death metal band from São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2014. The independent outfit operates within São Paulo's underground death metal scene, drawing on themes of death, gore, and horror.
Despond have been active in the American black metal underground since 1996, an unusually long tenure for a project whose Bandcamp presence keeps the mission minimal. Three decades of existence give their work a stubborn, weathered authenticity that newer projects cannot fake.
Despondence is a gothic metal band from Mykolaiv, Ukraine, formed in 2011. The project crafts dark gothic metal from the southern Ukrainian port city.
Despondency is a brutal death metal band from the Leer/Wilhelmshaven area of Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing brutal death metal from northern Germany's coastal underground.
Despondent plays depressive black metal from Porto, active since 2008 and channeling nearly two decades of despair into raw, emotionally devastating compositions. Their name's clinical description of hopelessness translates directly into music that makes no attempt to comfort.
Despot is a thrash metal and crossover band from Budapest, Hungary, formed in 2021. The band fuse the speed of thrash metal with the punk energy of crossover.
Despot is a black metal project from Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, formed by multi-instrumentalist Marcelo Murrer alongside drummer Diogo C. The band blends influences from early death and black metal with a modern eclectic approach, and released the EP Death Drive in July 2021, recorded partly at Black Void Studios in Dublin and mixed at LCS Studios in Nova Lima, Brazil.
Despotic is a death/thrash metal band from Prenzlau, Germany, formed in 2018. They rule through tyrannical death/thrash metal with authoritative force.
Despotism is a brutal death metal band from Dnipro, Ukraine, formed in 2021. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal.
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