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The Pain, will be exquisite (2025)
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Abridged Dimensions (2025)
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With Oden On Our Side (2015)
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Desolate Default is a death metal/metalcore band from Hanover, Germany, active since 2014. They merge death metal's heaviness with metalcore's intensity and dynamics.
Desolate Empyrean is a death and doom metal band from Lodz, Poland, formed in 2022. The project merges death metal's aggression with doom metal's crushing weight.
Desolate Grave is a funeral doom and symphonic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2022. The project crafts devastatingly slow doom with symphonic textures.
Desolation Catalyst is a melodic death metal band from Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany, active since 2011. They deliver powerful melodic death metal with emotional intensity.
Desolation of Eden is a deathcore band from Munich, Germany, formed in 2016. They unleash punishing deathcore breakdowns and extreme vocals from Bavaria's capital.
Desparity plays death/doom metal from Rotterdam, formed in 2022 and channeling inequality and division into slowly crushing compositions. Their name's evocation of disparity carries social weight within a genre traditionally focused on personal and existential despair.
Despectus is a symphonic melodic death metal band from Kharkiv, Ukraine, formed in 2011. The project layers symphonic elements over melodic death metal from eastern Ukraine.
Desperate Deed is a death metal band from the university city of Marburg in Hesse, formed in 2023 and delivering urgently aggressive extreme metal. Their name's implication of acts born from desperation carries into music that attacks with the intensity of a last resort.
Desperate Times is a metalcore and deathcore band from Hlinsko, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. They deliver aggressive breakdowns and harsh vocals rooted in the crossover between metalcore and deathcore.
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