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Deportation plays brutal death metal from Minsk, active since 2005 and among the longer-running extreme metal acts in Belarus. Their two decades of work have produced punishing, technically demanding death metal from a country whose underground scene remains largely unknown to Western audiences.
Derogation is a brutal death metal band from Kyiv, Ukraine, formed in 2013. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal from the Ukrainian capital.
Pico Rivera's Derogatory have been a fixture of the Southern California death metal underground since 2013, delivering unrelenting brutality rooted in the classic traditions of the genre. Their sound is direct and punishing, channeling the working-class ferocity of the LA metro area into suffocating death metal.
Three albums of merciless brutality on Comatose Music. Toured the U.S. and Europe. A reliable bludgeoning force in the Houston brutal death metal scene.
Desecrated Extinction is a slam/brutal death metal band from Aberdeen, Scotland, formed in 2022. They deliver desecrating slam brutality from the Granite City.
A brutal death metal and deathcore band from Vienna, Austria, active from 2007 to 2010 before splitting up. Unsigned and independent during their run, they operated in Vienna's underground extreme metal scene at the height of deathcore's European wave.
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Despondency is a brutal death metal band from the Leer/Wilhelmshaven area of Germany, formed in 2019. They deliver crushing brutal death metal from northern Germany's coastal underground.
Despotism is a brutal death metal band from Dnipro, Ukraine, formed in 2021. The project delivers punishing brutal death metal.
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