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Defixio is a black metal project from Rimini, Italy, formed in 2022. The project channels dark and ritualistic black metal from the Adriatic coast underground.
Defixiones is an atmospheric black metal project from Italy, formed in 2021. The project layers ethereal atmospheres over raw black metal foundations, creating immersive and darkly transcendent soundscapes.
Deflagrator is a black and thrash metal band from Naples, Italy, formed in 2011. Hailing from the deepest grounds of the Italian wasteland, the four-piece delivers fierce extreme metal across releases like 'Raising Weapons for the Beast' and 'Terror Grave Emanations.'
Defleshing a God is a black metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2023. Their debut demo 'Cenotapharium' showcases aggressive and nihilistic black metal with dark, ritualistic intensity.
Deflorator plays raw black metal from Tver between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, active since 2015. Their provocatively violent name drives lo-fi, aggressive compositions that embrace black metal's most confrontational traditions.
Defluxit is a solo black metal project from Sofia, Bulgaria, created by Dobromir Angelov, who also plays in Certain Demise and Self Doomed. The project fuses atmospheric black metal with death and doom influences across short, densely layered compositions.
Defod is an atmospheric black metal band from North Wales, formed in 2021. They channel the dark landscapes of Wales through atmospheric black metal.
Deform is a black metal band from Denmark, formed in 2020. They channel cold Nordic darkness through raw black metal.
Deforment is a black/death/thrash metal band from Santa Lucía de Tirajana, Gran Canaria, Spain, formed in 2020. They deliver a triple assault of black, death, and thrash metal from the Canary Islands.
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