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Divine Blasphemy is a black metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2018. The band craft raw, blasphemous black metal in the Hellenic tradition.
Divine Chaos is a melodic death/thrash metal band from London, active since 2009 with a substantial discography including Every Empire Shall Fall, Decivilise (2018), and Oblivion Unleashed (2022). The band remain prolific into 2026, releasing the single Condemned to the Void and continuing their blend of progressive, melodic death, and thrash metal.
Smartsville, California's Divine Defecation — operating out of the rural Sierra Nevada foothills — arrived in 2023 with the blunt, purposeful aggression of brutal death metal and no interest in softening the edges. A newcomer in the grand tradition of California's grotesque BDM underground, they make music calibrated for the pit and nowhere else.
Divine Desecration is a death metal band from Ostersund, Sweden, formed in 2023. The project delivers aggressive death metal from the Jamtland mountains.
Divine Empire were a death/thrash metal band formed in Boca Raton, Florida in 1997. The trio shared personnel with Malevolent Creation, including bassist Jason Blachowicz, guitarist John Paul Soars, and drummer Derek Roddy, one of the most technically regarded drummers in the Florida death metal scene. Active until 2007, the band released four albums — Redemption, Doomed to Inherit, Nostradamus, and Method of Execution — drawing on classic Florida death metal riffing with a thrash-forward orientation.
Savage Doom / Death Metal with Grindcore influences from Plano.
Aurora, Colorado's Divine Excruciation are among the newest entrants in the slam and brutal death metal world, forming in 2025 and bringing the Denver metro area's growing extreme metal energy to its most punishing conclusion. Slam's signature mid-paced breakdowns and guttural intensity are their weapons of choice, built to inflict damage with surgical patience.
Divine Hatred is a deathcore band from Sheffield, England, formed in 2020. Their discography spans several releases including Natural Order, Al Mumit, Moral Event Horizon, and Infections of a Pathogenic Message, each building on their aggressive deathcore foundation.
Divine Heresy is a Los Angeles-based technical death/groove metal band formed in 2006 by guitarist Dino Cazares, a co-founder of Fear Factory. The band's debut album Bleed the Fifth (2007) sold nearly 3,000 copies in its first week and showcased Cazares's mechanized riffing alongside vocalist Travis Neal and drummer Tim Yeung of Vital Remains. A second album, Bringer of Plagues, followed in 2009 via Century Media, co-produced by Logan Mader.
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