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A Past Embrace (2022)
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Hold Your Children Close and Pray for Oblivion (2016)
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Für Kaiser, Volk und Vaterland! / Stoßtrupp 1917 (2018)
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Santa Fe, New Mexico's Distorted Evil fuse black metal's cold fury with thrash metal's driving aggression, a blackened thrash approach that suits the high desert isolation their hometown provides. Formed in 2022, they've leaned into the raw, rehearsal-tape energy that makes the subgenre's best material feel genuinely dangerous rather than polished into submission.
Distorted Memories is a melodic thrash/death metal band from Besançon, France, formed in 2020. They deliver distorted melodic aggression from the Franche-Comté region.
Distorted Reality is a death metal band from Sofia, Bulgaria, active since 2003 and a longstanding presence in the Bulgarian extreme metal scene. Their music delivers unrelenting heaviness through technically grounded songwriting and forceful execution.
Distorted Reflection is a doom metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. The band craft slow, heavy doom metal compositions drawing from the genre's classic traditions.
Acton, California's DistortedFate have been building their heavy metal sound in the high desert foothills north of Los Angeles since 2021, far from the scene politics of the city proper. Their approach anchors itself in the timeless elements of the genre — driving riffs, strong hooks, and the kind of straightforward heavy metal songcraft that doesn't need qualifiers.
Distortflesh is a death metal band from Épernay, France. They deliver flesh-distorting death metal from the Champagne region.
Distortia is a melodic black metal band from Fulda, Germany, formed in 2022. They blend melodic beauty with black metal's cold intensity.
Distortum is a grindcore and death metal band from Trelew, Chubut, one of the few extreme metal acts to emerge from Argentina's Patagonian interior. Their early demos "Descerebrado lentamente" (1996) and "Descomposición acelerada" (1997) established their place in the Argentine underground extreme metal scene of the 1990s.
Distorze is a heavy/thrash metal band from Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, formed in 2012. They deliver a blend of classic heavy metal melody with thrash metal's speed and aggression.
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