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Devast is a death metal and grindcore band from Prague, Czech Republic, formed in 2014. They deliver intense, grinding brutality with relentless blast beats and guttural vocals.
Devastathor is a death metal band from Český Těšín, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. They play fierce, uncompromising death metal with a blackened edge.
Devastation A.D. is an old-school thrash and speed metal band originally from Pula, Croatia, formed in 1987 and active through various incarnations including a period as Hatross from 1990 to 1997. Their catalog spans from the 1987 demo The Upcoming Mayhem through The Possibility of Life's Destruction (1989) to their 2019 reunion material, documenting over three decades of Croatian thrash history.
Devastator formed in Derby in 2017 and quickly established themselves as a ferocious entry in the UK blackened thrash underground. The band's music is fast, filthy, and deliberately hostile, pulling from early black metal, speed metal, thrash, and rough-edged rock and roll. Early demos and live material built a local reputation before Baptised in Blasphemy gave the group a full-length statement: snarling vocals, hammering drums, evil-minded guitar work, and a sense of momentum that prized impact over polish. Conjurers of Cruelty expanded that formula with a broader extreme metal vocabulary, bringing in more black metal atmosphere and death-tinged brutality while keeping the core of the band fast, riff-forward, and confrontational. Devastator's songs often feel like they are pushing through smoke and feedback toward a mosh-pit detonation point. Their strength lies in making familiar underground ingredients feel urgent: satanic speed, Motörhead-like drive, thrash attack, and black metal venom delivered with the energy of a band built for dark, sweaty rooms.
Devaste plays death metal from Schlettau-Dorfel in Saxony's Erzgebirge mountain region, active since 2015 and drawing from the area's mining heritage for a sound that digs deep into the genre's heaviest veins. Their remote, mountainous setting lends isolation to music already steeped in darkness.
Devaster is a thrash metal band from Venice and Padua, Italy, formed in 2021. The project channels raw thrash metal aggression from the Veneto underground.
Devastor is a death metal and grindcore band from Žatec, Czech Republic, formed in 2018. They blend crushing death metal riffs with grindcore's velocity and intensity.
Devathorn is a black metal band from Athens, Greece, active since 2007, self-described as a "Draconian Black Metal covenant" channeling Qliphotic chaos. Their discography spans from the Diadema and Secta Nova releases through 418-ATh IAV and VRITRA to Zos Vel Thagirion, released via World Terror Committee.
Devation is a melodic death metal band from Gothenburg, Sweden, formed in 2015. The project channels the legendary Gothenburg melodic death metal sound.
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