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Let You Go (2024)
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The Bestiary (2025)
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Halo (2017)
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Downstone is a melodic heavy metal band from Oulu, Finland, emerging in 2025. They deliver melodic heaviness from northern Finland.
Downstream is a melodic death metal band from Streithausen, Germany, active since 2013. They deliver emotive melodic death metal from the Westerwald region.
Downswitch is a groove metal/metalcore band from Køge, Denmark, active since 2011. They combine groove metal's weight with metalcore's modern dynamics.
Downthroat plays brutal death metal from Anadia in the Beira region, active since 1999 and among Portugal's longest-running brutal death metal acts. Over a quarter century they've maintained an unwavering commitment to the genre's most punishing extremes.
Downtime plays melodic death metal and metalcore from Kassel in Hesse, active since 2017 and exploring the intersection of Scandinavian melodeath and modern metalcore. Their name's suggestion of rest and recuperation contrasts sharply with the intensity of their sound.
Downtrodden is a grindcore band from Kragujevac, Serbia, formed in 2017. The project delivers short, violent bursts of grinding extremity.
Downward Spiral is a sludge metal and hardcore band from London, active since 2009. The band fuse the crushing weight of sludge metal with hardcore punk intensity in their abrasive, heavy output.
Downwinder is a death metal and crust band from Volos, Greece, formed in 2021. The band merge the brutality of death metal with the raw punk aggression of crust.
Doxmo is a doom/sludge metal band from Mexico City, Mexico. The band released the EP "Desde el privilegio" in 2017, their only release listed on Metal Archives. Their Bandcamp page operates in Mexican pesos and links to their Facebook presence as Doxmo Band.
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