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Detritus is a thrash metal band from Bristol, England, formed in 2018. They deliver thrashing debris from the West Country.
Detruncation plays death metal from Deva in Transylvania, formed in 2025 and named after the act of severing limbs. Their surgical-violence name drives compositions of visceral, anatomically themed death metal.
Deuel is a progressive and melodic death metal band from Zagreb, Croatia, formed in 2012. The band merge the technical intricacy of progressive metal with the heaviness of melodic death metal.
From Liège and active between 2012 and 2016, Deuil were a four-piece sludge, drone, doom, and black metal band whose name is the French word for mourning — a title chosen to capture the emotional weight of grief and loss. Released on Consouling Sounds, their 2015 EP Shock/Deny followed the 2013 record Acceptance/Rebuild, and both releases blended blackened extremity with crushing sludge density.
A doom metal band from Graz, Austria, founded in 2017 by members of Saturnists, Dusk, Dark Nativity, and Another Home. Their debut full-length 'Oyer and Terminer' — named after the Salem witch trial courts — was released in February 2022 via Grazil Records, earning early radio play on Austria's FM4 and an invitation to perform at the Doom Over Vienna festival.
Deus Carne is a death and sludge metal band from Cúcuta, Norte de Santander, Colombia, founded in 2018 after an earlier incarnation as a grindcore and powerviolence project. The band released their debut full-length Conceptos del odio in 2019 and their second album Cúcuta in 2025, the latter a conceptual work addressing the social degradation of their home city. They remain an independent act and operate entirely out of Cúcuta.
Deus Dethroned is a black metal band from Volos, Greece, formed in 2022. The band craft dark, intense black metal rooted in the Greek extreme metal underground.
Deus Inversus is a death metal band from Essen, Germany, active since 2010. They explore inverted spiritual themes through technically accomplished death metal.
Deus Irae is a heavy metal band from Valencia, Spain, formed in 2024. They invoke the wrath of god through powerful heavy metal.
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