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Det Eviga Leendet is a black metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2018. The project's Swedish name, meaning 'The Eternal Smile,' channels atmospheric black metal.
Detached is a power and symphonic metal band from Modena, active since 2010 and pairing soaring vocal melodies with orchestral keyboard arrangements and driving rhythms. Their compositions channel the grandeur of European symphonic metal with the energetic momentum of power metal.
Detained is a heavy metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2015. The project delivers classic heavy metal from the university city.
Pennsylvania's Deteriorate trace a lineage from early death metal into blackened death metal territory — a natural evolution for a band whose Metal Archives entry notes the genre shift explicitly across their career. The Penndel-area underground has always rewarded bands willing to push deeper into the dark, and Deteriorate have obliged.
Deteriors is a thrash metal band from Fabriano, in the Ancona province of the Marche region, Italy, formed in 1991. One of the longest-running thrash acts in central Italy, the band has delivered decades of aggressive thrash metal from the underground.
Determined is a thrash/groove metal band from Karlsruhe, Germany, active since 2011. They combine thrash metal's speed with groove metal's rhythmic power.
Deterrent is a progressive metal band from Georgsmarienhütte, Germany, active since 2013. They craft intricate progressive metal with technical ambition.
Formed in Bornem, Antwerp in 2007, Detest play black and death metal with a dark conceptual focus on the human mind, evidenced on their album We Will Get What We Deserve. The band operates as an unsigned independent act and remains active in the Belgian extreme metal underground.
A Louisiana black metal project formed in 2024, Detest the Sun channels the oppressive Southern heat into raw, hateful black metal in the tradition of solo projects that treat atmosphere as a weapon. The name suggests photophobia elevated to philosophical position — a worldview as well as an aesthetic.
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