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Devilkraft is a São Paulo-based black/death metal outfit operating in the long shadow of Brazil's first-wave extreme scene. Their 2021 full-length Black Book of Goetia, released digitally through the band's own Bandcamp and circulated in the underground via portals such as Metal Area and BoxAlbums, is a nine-track exercise in the kind of old-school savagery that has defined the Brazilian extreme underground for forty years. The band has been candid about its lineage, citing Dissection, Cannibal Corpse, Suffocation, Archgoat and Morbid Angel as primary reference points, and the record bears that out: blasting, riff-driven death metal coloured by the corpse-painted austerity of the Swedish and Finnish black/death traditions, rather than the cleaner Gothenburg sound that dominates much of contemporary South American extreme music. The album's title alone, drawn from the Lemegeton's Lesser Key of Solomon and its catalogue of seventy-two demons, situates Devilkraft within a long Brazilian fascination with grimoire literature that runs from Mystifier's Goetia (1993) through to contemporary São Paulo demonological projects. That São Paulo connection matters. The city remains the operational hub for the Brazilian Ritual Records circle and the annual Brazilian Ritual concert event, the local label-and-festival ecosystem that has carried forward the war metal and black/death tradition from Sarcófago, Mystifier and Holocausto into a new generation. Devilkraft sits comfortably within that orbit without being formally tied to it: a project whose riff vocabulary, occult lyrical thematics and DIY release approach all point to the same underground network of tape traders, cassette labels and small-press fanzines that has sustained São Paulo's extreme scene since the 1980s. They remain active and continue to circulate the album through Bandcamp and YouTube uploads of the full LP.
Devilkommando is a black/thrash/speed metal band from Zagreb and Varazdin, Croatia, formed in 2025. The band blast through the intersection of black, thrash, and speed metal with relentless aggression.
Devilpact is a black metal band from Russia, formed in 2001. One of the veteran Russian black metal acts with over two decades of dark extreme metal.
Devilpriest is a black and death metal band from Gliwice, Poland, formed in 2017. The project merges black metal's darkness with death metal's aggression from the Upper Silesian scene.
Devilry plays black/death metal from Helsinki, active since 2011 and practicing the dark arts of extreme metal from Finland's capital. Their witchcraft-evoking name suits compositions that blend black metal's atmospheric malice with death metal's crushing physicality.
Grand Forks, North Dakota is an unlikely origin point for raw black metal, but Devils Chasm — formed in 2025 — channel the isolation and bitter cold of the Northern Plains into corrosive, minimalist black metal. Their sound carries the specific desolation of a region where winter feels like an ideology.
Devils Diner is a heavy metal band from Ingolstadt in Bavaria, active since 2015 and serving up hearty portions of riff-driven traditional metal. Their roadhouse-meets-hell imagery lends a working-class, blue-collar character to classic heavy metal.
Devils Drunks formed in Villa Mercedes, San Luis, Argentina in 2016 and released a self-titled debut album that same year before following it up with Desterrados in September 2020, a seven-track record recorded and mixed over the course of 2019 and 2020. The band's lineup on Desterrados comprised Cristian Cervelo on vocals, Esteban Marilungo and Luis Martinez on guitars, Luciano Ottogalli on bass, and Francisco Giraudi on drums. They operate independently, distributing their music through Bandcamp.
Devils Henchmen is a heavy/thrash metal band from Liverpool, England, formed in 2020. They serve the devil through heavy/thrash metal from Merseyside.
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