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Destroy Us is a raw black metal project from Switzerland, formed in 2014 and trafficking in the lo-fi aggression and stripped-down fury that defines the raw black metal underground. Their approach favors atmosphere and hostility over production polish.
Destrukto is a black and death metal band from Osthammar, Sweden, formed in 2011. The project merges black metal with death metal from the Uppsala county.
Destrøyer is a blackened heavy metal band from Saint-Cloud, France, active since 1998. With over a quarter century of activity, they forge black-tinged heavy metal from the Parisian suburbs.
Desum is a black/death metal band from Hungary, formed in 2018. The band channel extreme metal aggression at the intersection of black and death metal.
Det Eviga Leendet is a black metal band from Uppsala, Sweden, formed in 2018. The project's Swedish name, meaning 'The Eternal Smile,' channels atmospheric black metal.
Formed in Bornem, Antwerp in 2007, Detest play black and death metal with a dark conceptual focus on the human mind, evidenced on their album We Will Get What We Deserve. The band operates as an unsigned independent act and remains active in the Belgian extreme metal underground.
Detestial is a black/thrash metal band from Athens, Greece, formed in 2024. The band deliver aggressive blackened thrash drawing from both the Hellenic black metal tradition and thrash metal fury.
Dethroned is a black metal band from Saarbrücken, Germany, formed in 2019. They channel cold, majestic black metal from Germany's western border.
Dethroner is a black, death, and thrash metal band from Rome, Italy, formed in 2013. The project combines the extremity of three pillars of metal aggression into a potent and relentless Roman metal assault.
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