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Devastathor is a death metal band from Český Těšín, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. They play fierce, uncompromising death metal with a blackened edge.
Texas thrash/death metal. Underrated and vicious, part of the late-80s Texas thrash explosion.
Chicago's Devastation emerged in the late 1980s at the harder edges of the death/thrash continuum, combining the brutality beginning to emerge from the death metal underground with the technical aggression thrash was refining at the same moment. Their early Chicago recordings place them in a lineage of Midwestern extremity that continues to influence the city's scene.
Devastation A.D. is an old-school thrash and speed metal band originally from Pula, Croatia, formed in 1987 and active through various incarnations including a period as Hatross from 1990 to 1997. Their catalog spans from the 1987 demo The Upcoming Mayhem through The Possibility of Life's Destruction (1989) to their 2019 reunion material, documenting over three decades of Croatian thrash history.
Snohomish, Washington's Devastation Wagon have been rolling through the Pacific Northwest thrash underground since 2011, delivering fast-picking riff attacks with the workmanlike consistency of a band that plays because they mean it. The name suggests forward momentum above all else, and their music backs that up.
Brooklyn's Devastation Wagon have been grinding out vicious crossover thrash since 2011, blending hardcore punk fury with shredding metal riffs in the best tradition of the New York underground. Their sound channels the raw energy of the city's DIY scene — fast, mean, and built for the pit.
Devastator formed in Derby in 2017 and quickly established themselves as a ferocious entry in the UK blackened thrash underground. The band's music is fast, filthy, and deliberately hostile, pulling from early black metal, speed metal, thrash, and rough-edged rock and roll. Early demos and live material built a local reputation before Baptised in Blasphemy gave the group a full-length statement: snarling vocals, hammering drums, evil-minded guitar work, and a sense of momentum that prized impact over polish. Conjurers of Cruelty expanded that formula with a broader extreme metal vocabulary, bringing in more black metal atmosphere and death-tinged brutality while keeping the core of the band fast, riff-forward, and confrontational. Devastator's songs often feel like they are pushing through smoke and feedback toward a mosh-pit detonation point. Their strength lies in making familiar underground ingredients feel urgent: satanic speed, Motörhead-like drive, thrash attack, and black metal venom delivered with the energy of a band built for dark, sweaty rooms.
Devastação Sob Terror is a grindcore band from São José dos Campos, São Paulo, Brazil, formed in 2008. The band plays fast, violent grindcore with influences from death metal, crust, and hardcore punk, releasing records including "Campo Minado de Atos Covardes" (2010) and "Legado de Tortura e Escravidão" (2016). They have been active in the São Paulo underground scene and participated in events such as the local Faces of Death festival.
Devaste plays death metal from Schlettau-Dorfel in Saxony's Erzgebirge mountain region, active since 2015 and drawing from the area's mining heritage for a sound that digs deep into the genre's heaviest veins. Their remote, mountainous setting lends isolation to music already steeped in darkness.
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