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Piles of Festering Decomposition (2020)
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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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The Anthropocene Extinction (2015)
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Destrypse is a grindcore act from Modica in Sicily's Ragusa province, formed in 2025 and representing the newest wave of the island's extreme music underground. Their blasting, microsecond compositions deliver maximum violence in minimum time.
Destrøyer is a blackened heavy metal band from Saint-Cloud, France, active since 1998. With over a quarter century of activity, they forge black-tinged heavy metal from the Parisian suburbs.
Desultor is a technical death metal band from Stockholm, Sweden, formed in 2013. The project delivers technically precise death metal from the Swedish capital.
Desultory is a thrash metal band from Ermelo in Gelderland, formed in 2024 and delivering the scattered, unpredictable aggression their name — meaning lacking a plan — implies. Their thrash compositions attack from unexpected angles with restless, directionless fury.
Desum is a black/death metal band from Hungary, formed in 2018. The band channel extreme metal aggression at the intersection of black and death metal.
Vicious Thrash Metal out of Texas.
Desybes is a melodic thrash metal band from Belfort, France, active since 2007. They deliver melodic thrash from eastern France.
Desynchronized is a death metal band from Kaliningrad, Russia, formed in 2023. The project delivers aggressive death metal from Russia's Baltic exclave.
Desartico plays stoner/doom metal and rock from Zaragoza in Aragon, active since 2019 and evoking the dry, sun-baked character of the Ebro Valley through fuzz-drenched heaviness. Their name — a Spanish portmanteau of desert and Arctic — captures the temperature extremes of both their sound and their homeland.
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