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Devouring is a death metal band from Inca, Mallorca, Spain, active since 2013. They deliver consuming death metal from the Balearic Islands.
Devouring is a death metal band from Simões Filho, Bahia, Brazil, formed in 2013 and drawing on old-school and brutal death metal influences with lyrical themes of death, war, and anti-Christianity. The band has released multiple recordings including the albums "Suffering and Deformity" and "Psalms of Death" (2017), recorded at WR Bahia Studios in Salvador.
Devouring Doom is a death metal band from the Sabadell/Barcelona area of Spain, active since 2010. They play doom-tinged death metal from the Catalan heartland.
Devouring God is a black/doom metal band from Ludwigsburg, Germany, active since 2016. They combine black metal's atmosphere with doom's crushing heaviness for a sound of cosmic despair.
Out of Decatur, Texas, Devouring Plague have been delivering deathcore-laced death metal since 2011, bringing a small-town brutality to a genre that typically thrives in urban centers. More than a decade of existence has sharpened their sound into something dense, crushing, and unapologetically heavy.
Portland, Washington's Devouring Serpent emerged in 2020 with a black/death metal sound that suits the Pacific Northwest's grey skies and dense forests. Their approach favors atmosphere and aggression in equal measure, channeling something genuinely feral out of the region's rich extreme metal tradition.
Devouring Star is a black metal band from Finland, active since 2013. They channel cosmic annihilation through intense, otherworldly black metal.
Virginia Beach's Devouring Swarm began in 2014 exploring the outer edges of technical death metal before evolving into a more direct and crushing death metal approach — a trajectory that reflects a maturation toward impact over intricacy. They stand as one of the more seasoned acts in the Virginia coastal metal underground.
Dallas brutal death metal. Pioneers of the slam death subgenre with guttural, inhuman heaviness.
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