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Heavy Heavy Metal out of Texas.
One of Austin's most consistent doom bands over twelve years. Six albums of melodic doom.
Destroyers is a Czech death/thrash metal band formed in 2017. They combine the relentless aggression of death metal with the speed and precision of thrash.
Destroyers of All plays progressive death/groove metal from the university city of Coimbra, active since 2013 and living up to their absolutist name through technically accomplished, genre-spanning compositions. Their ambitious approach combines progressive complexity with death metal's weight and groove metal's rhythmic punch.
DestroyTheHumans is an Argentine grindcore band featuring El Podrido on vocals, Walter on guitars and bass, and Marcelo on drums. The band released the split album Hostis Humani Generis in February 2014 on Coche Bomba Records, paired with US grindcore act Dirty Mike & The Boys, contributing four tracks including "Lead Us" and "Anthem of Negativity."
Chicago's Destroythm have been cooking a hybrid of death, thrash, and groove metal since 2014 — a combination that leans into the punishing rhythmic mechanics at all three subgenres' cores. The groove element gives their material a physical snap that keeps the brutality anchored and danceable.
Sandy, Utah's Destructinator formed in 2019 playing power/speed/thrash metal, the trifecta of velocity and epic ambition that defined the 1980s metal underground. Their music favors the melodic hook and the full-speed riff, channeling the bombast of bands that made the genre feel genuinely larger than life.
Formed in 1982 in Weil am Rhein, Destruction are one of the foundational "three kings" of Teutonic thrash metal alongside Kreator and Sodom, their early recordings — including the 1984 EP Sentence of Death and the ferocious 1985 debut Infernal Overkill — establishing a savage, riff-driven extremity that was among the most aggressive music in Europe at the time. Anchored for decades by vocalist and bassist Schmier and guitarist Mike Sifringer, the band's catalog spans over fifteen studio albums, and their reunion in 1999 after a period of hiatus restored them to an active and prolific presence in the global thrash metal scene.
Destruction in Anatolia is a black metal band from Istanbul, Turkey, formed in 2021. The project channels dark black metal from the Bosphorus city.
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