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Give Me Back My World (2025)
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Named for the demonological figure, Montoursville, Pennsylvania's Decarabia channels blackened thrash with occult menace since 2016. Their riffs carry the sharp, cold edge of central Pennsylvania winters alongside genuine esoteric hostility.
New Hampshire's Decarabia strips black metal down to its atmospheric and ambient essentials, a solitary project born in 2016 from the forests and silence of the northern New England landscape. Cold, spare, and steeped in isolation.
Decathect is a progressive black/death metal band from Stuttgart, Germany, active since 2013. They push extreme metal into cerebral, progressive territory with ambitious compositions.
St. Louis's Decay Crawler has been crawling through black metal's underworld since 2013, building an atmosphere thick with the Midwest's particular brand of isolation and dread. Their music moves like rot spreading through wood — slow, relentless, and irreversible.
Bay Area thrash veterans Decayed have been churning out speed and aggression since 1992, outlasting most of their contemporaries and remaining active while the genre cycled through waves of revival. Three decades in, the riffs are still as vicious as ever.
Decayed Messiah is a death/black metal band from Leeds, England, active since 2010. They deliver decayed extreme metal from West Yorkshire.
From the Texas-Mexico border city of Laredo, Decayed Mutilation has been unleashing a death/black/thrash hybrid since 2016 that carries the ferocity of a scene forged on the cultural edge of two countries. Border-town extremity with something to prove.
Decayer is a black metal band from Ostergotland, Sweden, formed in 2017. The project channels dark black metal.
Portland, Maine's Decaying Continuum works in the bleak space where blackened death metal meets northern New England's unforgiving landscape, crafting music as cold and uncompromising as a January storm off Casco Bay. Formed in 2016, they let geography inform every desolate passage.
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