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Desprezível is an active slam and brutal death metal band from Campina Grande do Sul, Paraná, Brazil, formed in 2024. The band plays in the heavy-hitting Brazilian brutal death tradition and has self-released multiple recordings on Bandcamp, including the tracks "Banho Sangrento" and "Café Com Leite."
Dessacrator plays thrash/speed metal from the university city of Leiden, active since 2011 and desecrating convention through high-velocity riffing. Their misspelled-desecrator name adds a deliberately crude edge to their classic thrash attack.
Destabilizer is a thrash metal band from Horsens in east-central Jutland, active since 2021 and living up to their name with compositions designed to destabilize through relentless aggression. Their sound channels the raw, untamed energy of classic thrash through a Danish lens.
Destillat is a melodic black/death metal band from Leipzig, Germany, formed in 2018. They distill the essence of melodic extremity through black and death metal.
Destination Dawn is a melodic death/power metal band from Nordhausen, Germany, active since 2009. They merge melodic death metal's intensity with power metal's soaring energy.
Destination Disease is a metalcore band from Birmingham, England, emerging in 2025. They deliver diseased metalcore from the West Midlands.
A death metal band from Vienna, Austria, whose history traces back to the early 1990s despite the band's official founding in May 2008. They play straightforward death metal rooted in the Vienna underground and are documented on Bandcamp and Austrian metal compilations.
Destination: Destruction plays death metal from Tampere, active since 2011 and navigating a one-way course toward sonic annihilation. Their name leaves no ambiguity about their mission — relentless, focused death metal with total devastation as its only endpoint.
Destination:Unity is a melodic death metal band from Wiesbaden, Germany, formed in 2017. They deliver melody-driven death metal with a unifying vision.
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